Serious unclassified road crash in Torridge EX22 on 6 April 2002 at 12:10 involving a Nissan Bluebird
A Nissan Bluebird hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torridge at 12:10 on Saturday 6 April 2002. An 87-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Apr 2002
- Saturday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Bluebird
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81558, longitude -4.35844, in the EX22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Holsworthy.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200250C422009
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 144 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 30 August 2003
144 m awayRef 200350C42O851
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 27 April 2015
228 m awayRef 201550CH2L005
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 16 May 2007
239 m awayRef 200750C42F678
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 25 December 1992
242 m awayRef 199250C421208
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 15 March 2000
247 m awayRef 200050C421233
Serious
Peugeot 207 crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 28 January 2013
257 m awayRef 201350CH2L002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 87, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
- 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 200250C422009 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torridge road accident statistics for 2002.