A361 crash in North Devon on 8 June 2000 at 15:28 involving a Mercedes 300
A Mercedes 300 hit a pedestrian on the A361 in North Devon at 15:28 on Thursday 8 June 2000. A 3-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jun 2000
- Thursday, 15:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes 300
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07593, longitude -4.05, in the EX32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnstaple.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050C212865
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 361
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 serious injury crash on 20 February 2001.
Serious
Honda crash on the A361 in North Devon, 20 February 2001
10 m awayRef 200150C211086
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 28 September 1989
10 m awayRef 198950C211101
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 29 March 2000
10 m awayRef 200050C212988
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on a C road in North Devon, 26 June 2008
14 m awayRef 200850CB2D017
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A39 in North Devon, 24 January 2021
18 m awayRef 2021501018881
Slight
Harley-Davidson FLS crash on the A361 in North Devon, 25 December 2001
20 m awayRef 200150C218191
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes 300
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,962 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes 300)
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 200050C212865 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 2000.