Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 26 October 2007 at 16:45 involving a Vauxhall Agila
A Vauxhall Agila hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torridge at 16:45 on Friday 26 October 2007. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2007
- Friday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Agila
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04646, longitude -4.20678, in the EX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northam. It is one of the crashes that make up the Appledore, Torridge, EX39 1EL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750C41N174
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 2008.
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Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 1 May 2008
28 m awayRef 200850CD2C002
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Rover 600 Series crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 19 March 2000
130 m awayRef 200050C411584
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 18 May 1983
166 m awayRef 198350C410215
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 25 July 2000
170 m awayRef 200050C413742
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Austin Morris Mini crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 12 January 1994
178 m awayRef 199450C410044
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in Torridge, 18 December 1979
201 m awayRef 197950H610586
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Agila
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Agila)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200750C41N174 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 2007.