A399 crash in North Devon on 25 July 2025 at 13:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A399 in North Devon at 13:45 on Friday 25 July 2025. The 44-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jul 2025
- Friday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21189, longitude -4.09516, in the EX34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501620798
- Council area
- North 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
- 399
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 September 2025.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A399 in North Devon, 18 September 2025
36 m awayRef 2025501644878
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A399 in North Devon, 8 November 2018
42 m awayRef 2018500802019
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A399 in North Devon, 7 October 1989
47 m awayRef 198950C311136
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A399 in North Devon, 28 October 1990
62 m awayRef 199050C311155
Slight
Car crash on the A399 in North Devon, 3 January 1985
73 m awayRef 198550C310005
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A399 in North Devon, 20 December 2011
104 m awayRef 201150CI2Q008
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,150 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 44, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2025501620798 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 2025.