Unclassified road crash in the South Hams TQ9 on 22 July 2025 at 08:43 involving a Yamaha MT motorcycle
A Yamaha MT motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in the South Hams at 08:43 on Tuesday 22 July 2025. The 61-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jul 2025
- Tuesday, 08:43
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha MT
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.43468, longitude -3.65698, in the TQ9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501619672
- Council area
- South Hams
- 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
- 40 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 2018.
Slight
Mini Clubman crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 13 August 2018
20 m awayRef 2018500800029
Slight
Opel Kadett crash on a C road in the South Hams, 12 June 1991
42 m awayRef 199150F510912
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 1 March 1991
89 m awayRef 199150F510352
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the South Hams, 30 July 1987
93 m awayRef 198750F511410
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the South Hams, 2 March 1994
125 m awayRef 199450F510489
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in the South Hams, 27 September 1990
125 m awayRef 199050F511814
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha MT
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 61, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha MT)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025501619672 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 2025.