Unclassified road crash in the South Hams PL21 on 31 May 2007 at 14:42 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the South Hams at 14:42 on Thursday 31 May 2007. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 May 2007
- Thursday, 14:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.34805, longitude -3.89085, in the PL21 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750E53G336
- Council area
- South Hams
- 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
- Rural
- 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
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 1994.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 18 July 1994
22 m awayRef 199450F551668
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 30 June 2005
50 m awayRef 200550E53I220
Slight
Kawasaki crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 14 December 2003
130 m awayRef 200350F55Q730
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 25 January 2007
133 m awayRef 200750E53B156
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 28 August 1998
158 m awayRef 199850F555227
Serious
Toyota Aygo crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 11 June 2014
166 m awayRef 201450JK2B001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- 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 200750E53G336 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 2007.