Unclassified road crash in North Devon EX32 on 29 December 2004 at 23:10 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Devon at 23:10 on Wednesday 29 December 2004. A 22-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2004
- Wednesday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0788, longitude -4.05613, in the EX32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnstaple. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barnstaple Central, North Devon, EX32 8HG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200450C21S459
- Council area
- North Devon
- 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
- Urban
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 April 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 7 April 1984
10 m awayRef 198450C210140
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 13 August 2023
13 m awayRef 2023501341102
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 22 November 1981
14 m awayRef 198150H560621
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 31 October 2009
22 m awayRef 200950CB2D031
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 29 July 2000
22 m awayRef 200050C213947
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 19 February 1999
28 m awayRef 199950C211071
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 200450C21S459 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 2004.