Serious unclassified road crash in Mid Devon EX18 on 8 April 2023 at 12:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Mid Devon at 12:40 on Saturday 8 April 2023. The 63-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Apr 2023
- Saturday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.902, longitude -3.90891, in the EX18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023501294816
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 47 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 June 1981.
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 13 June 1981
47 m awayRef 198150H570268
Serious
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 29 April 1980
145 m awayRef 198050H570160
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 28 September 2010
165 m awayRef 201050KC4A001
Slight
Dacia Duster crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 27 December 2020
536 m awayRef 2020501014386
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 24 July 2006
600 m awayRef 200650C25N581
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 20 August 2001
603 m awayRef 200150C435122
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 350 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 63, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2023501294816 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 2023.