Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX4 on 15 December 2007 at 19:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Exeter at 19:00 on Saturday 15 December 2007. A 37-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2007
- Saturday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72478, longitude -3.5315, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the St David's, Exeter, EX1 1GH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750D21P476
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 July 1991.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 8 July 1991
10 m awayRef 199150D211168
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 25 August 2007
10 m awayRef 200750D21K277
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 13 November 1992
14 m awayRef 199250D211981
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 26 August 1997
14 m awayRef 199750D212890
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 29 December 1980
14 m awayRef 198050J661348
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 30 April 2011
42 m awayRef 201150DE2I036
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 37, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- 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 200750D21P476 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 2007.