Serious unclassified road crash in Mid Devon EX17 on 19 January 2005 at 18:41 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Mid Devon at 18:41 on Wednesday 19 January 2005. A 14-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jan 2005
- Wednesday, 18:41
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87775, longitude -3.66956, in the EX17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550D43A556
- Council area
- Mid 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 March 1998.
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61 m awayRef 199850D431451
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Slight
Citroen C4 crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 14 September 2016
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 8 October 1989
688 m awayRef 198950D431774
Slight
Peugeot 104 crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 17 January 1993
722 m awayRef 199350D430131
Serious
Volvo 360 crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 3 December 1997
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,222 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200550D43A556 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 2005.