A3123 crash in North Devon on 5 April 1995 at 15:45 involving a MAN/VW van
A MAN/VW van hit a pedestrian on the A3123 in North Devon at 15:45 on Wednesday 5 April 1995. A 60-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Apr 1995
- Wednesday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- MAN/VW
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17582, longitude -4.05466, 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
- 199550C310400
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3123
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 October 2017.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 14 October 2017
29 m awayRef 2017500236614
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 26 August 1994
32 m awayRef 199450C311013
Slight
Daewoo Nexia crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 3 June 2007
73 m awayRef 200750C31G588
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 7 August 2018
143 m awayRef 2018500320807
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 21 August 2023
207 m awayRef 2023501343880
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 26 October 1992
235 m awayRef 199250C310973
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MAN/VW
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (MAN/VW)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 199550C310400 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 1995.