Serious C road crash in Exeter EX4 on 12 January 1995 at 08:55 involving a Talbot Express van
A Talbot Express van hit a pedestrian on a C road in Exeter at 08:55 on Thursday 12 January 1995. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jan 1995
- Thursday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Talbot Express
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73245, longitude -3.53453, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199550D210051
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Talbot Express
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Talbot Express)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- 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 199550D210051 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 1995.