Unclassified road crash in East Devon EX24 on 2 July 1997 at 15:30 involving a Toyota Hiace minibus
A Toyota Hiace minibus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in East Devon at 15:30 on Wednesday 2 July 1997. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 1997
- Wednesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Hiace
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73949, longitude -3.07346, in the EX24 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199750D342289
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 February 2001.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Hiace
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,438 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Hiace)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199750D342289 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 1997.