Serious A3072 crash in West Devon on 30 May 2025 at 19:07 involving a Lexmoto LXR motorcycle
A Lexmoto LXR motorcycle crashed on the A3072 in West Devon at 19:07 on Friday 30 May 2025. The 17-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
- 30 May 2025
- Friday, 19:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexmoto LXR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79868, longitude -3.86053, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501603587
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3072
- 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
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Very 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsavan crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 25 February 2013
8 m awayRef 201350JO4P001
Slight
Volvo crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 15 August 1997
10 m awayRef 199750C522807
Serious
Volvo S40 crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 13 February 2016
15 m awayRef 201650JO4P001
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 1 April 2000
40 m awayRef 200050C521455
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 30 March 2009
61 m awayRef 200950JO4P004
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 21 December 2020
66 m awayRef 2020501016611
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto LXR
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto LXR)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025501603587 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 2025.