Unclassified road crash in West Devon EX20 on 25 July 1998 at 13:15 involving an Alfa Romeo 33
An Alfa Romeo 33 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Devon at 13:15 on Saturday 25 July 1998. A 6-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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jul 1998
- Saturday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Alfa Romeo 33
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73883, longitude -4.00315, in the EX20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Okehampton.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199850C514270
- Council area
- West 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 1994.
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the B3260 in West Devon, 22 November 1994
14 m awayRef 199450C511418
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 5 May 1983
20 m awayRef 198350C510195
Slight
Renault 11 crash on the B3260 in West Devon, 15 May 1993
20 m awayRef 199350C510475
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 28 July 1981
20 m awayRef 198150H260362
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 6 August 1981
20 m awayRef 198150H260404
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B3260 in West Devon, 18 August 1994
20 m awayRef 199450C510976
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Alfa Romeo 33
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,712 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Alfa Romeo 33)
- 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 199850C514270 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 1998.