A3122 crash in the South Hams on 20 September 2025 at 00:54 involving a Sym Jet motorcycle
A Sym Jet motorcycle crashed on the A3122 in the South Hams at 00:54 on Saturday 20 September 2025. The 20-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
- 20 Sep 2025
- Saturday, 00:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Sym Jet
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.35597, longitude -3.65172, 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
- 2025501645703
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3122
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 2018.
Slight
Volkswagen UP crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 25 January 2018
4 m awayRef 2018500265426
Slight
Subaru Legacy crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 3 December 1994
12 m awayRef 199450F532726
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 1 June 2022
17 m awayRef 2022501190070
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 24 September 2019
26 m awayRef 2019500888221
Slight
Honda crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 8 May 1999
36 m awayRef 199950F532587
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 30 July 2015
57 m awayRef 201550JH2D003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Sym Jet
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Sym Jet)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025501645703 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.