C road crash in Exeter EX4 on 31 March 1985 at 09:51 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Exeter at 09:51 on Sunday 31 March 1985. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Mar 1985
- Sunday, 09:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72884, longitude -3.54915, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550D210544
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 January 1984.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Exeter, 7 January 1984
At the same spotRef 198450D210016
Slight
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Exeter, 17 April 1989
10 m awayRef 198950D210581
Serious
Honda NH80MD crash on a C road in Exeter, 3 March 1997
20 m awayRef 199750D210662
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Exeter, 7 September 1985
22 m awayRef 198550D211712
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Exeter, 29 May 1992
22 m awayRef 199250D210817
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198550D210544 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 1985.