Unclassified road crash in East Devon EX11 on 31 July 1998 at 16:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in East Devon at 16:00 on Friday 31 July 1998. An 8-year-old female 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
- 31 Jul 1998
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.75123, longitude -3.27431, in the EX11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ottery St Mary.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199850D354453
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 67 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 1983.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 24 August 1983
67 m awayRef 198350D351555
Slight
Car crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 2 November 1986
76 m awayRef 198650D352018
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 16 June 1986
78 m awayRef 198650D351071
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 10 August 2019
78 m awayRef 2019500870441
Slight
Leyland crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 31 July 1990
100 m awayRef 199050D351474
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 2 October 2000
100 m awayRef 200050D355233
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- 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 199850D354453 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 1998.