Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX4 on 23 November 2005 at 16:18 involving an Optare Solo bus
An Optare Solo bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Exeter at 16:18 on Wednesday 23 November 2005. An 81-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Nov 2005
- Wednesday, 16:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Optare Solo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72933, longitude -3.52074, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the Duryard and St James, Exeter, EX4 6HR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Exeter
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550D21P211
- Council area
- Exeter
- 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
- 60 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 February 2006.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 4 February 2006
14 m awayRef 200650D21C596
Serious
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 19 October 1999
14 m awayRef 199950D216034
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 25 November 2014
16 m awayRef 201450DE2F021
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 3 November 2020
17 m awayRef 2020500998488
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 1 August 2019
17 m awayRef 2019500868371
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Exeter, 28 July 1984
22 m awayRef 198450D211314
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Optare Solo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 81, hit by vehicle 1 (Optare Solo)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 200550D21P211 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 2005.