B3176 crash in East Devon on 6 September 1999 at 13:10 involving a Mercedes 400
A Mercedes 400 hit a pedestrian on the B3176 in East Devon at 13:10 on Monday 6 September 1999. A 7-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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Sep 1999
- Monday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes 400
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.75094, longitude -3.27903, 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
- 199950D355253
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3176
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 September 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 11 September 1984
10 m awayRef 198450D351590
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 25 July 1996
20 m awayRef 199650D352242
Slight
Car crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 31 March 1988
20 m awayRef 198850D350508
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 28 July 1989
20 m awayRef 198950D351230
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 17 April 2000
22 m awayRef 200050D351877
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 17 December 2014
25 m awayRef 201450KO2J013
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes 400
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,520 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes 400)
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 199950D355253 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 1999.