B3260 crash in West Devon on 31 December 2025 at 23:45 involving a Benelli BN motorcycle
A Benelli BN motorcycle crashed on the B3260 in West Devon at 23:45 on Wednesday 31 December 2025. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2025
- Wednesday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Benelli BN
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73969, longitude -4.00088, in the EX20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Okehampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Okehampton South, West Devon, EX20 1AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501689921
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3260
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 3 August 1995.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B3260 in West Devon, 3 August 1995
4 m awayRef 199550C510994
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 16 July 1985
4 m awayRef 198550C510276
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 1 November 1985
4 m awayRef 198550C510500
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 17 December 1987
13 m awayRef 198750C513434
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 11 May 1981
13 m awayRef 198150H260207
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 27 January 1984
13 m awayRef 198450C510030
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Benelli BN
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 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
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Benelli BN)
- 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 2025501689921 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.