Unclassified road crash in North Devon EX34 on 24 May 1998 at 15:02 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Devon at 15:02 on Sunday 24 May 1998. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 May 1998
- Sunday, 15:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21047, longitude -4.11905, in the EX34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ilfracombe.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199850C312855
- Council area
- North 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
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 February 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 29 February 1988
10 m awayRef 198850C314206
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 3 September 1988
10 m awayRef 198850C315018
Serious
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 15 December 1982
10 m awayRef 198250C310602
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 17 June 2001
14 m awayRef 200150C313621
Slight
Subaru Subaru crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 27 September 1995
20 m awayRef 199550C311307
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 28 December 1999
22 m awayRef 199950C317537
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 199850C312855 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 1998.