Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 23 September 2008 at 16:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torridge at 16:30 on Tuesday 23 September 2008. A 17-year-old female 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
- 23 Sep 2008
- Tuesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01441, longitude -4.21795, in the EX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bideford.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850CD3E010
- Council area
- Torridge
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 November 2007.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 28 November 2007
20 m awayRef 200750C41O738
Slight
Datsun Cherry crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 18 April 1996
45 m awayRef 199650C411169
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A39 in Torridge, 1 September 2004
112 m awayRef 200450C41M194
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 18 June 1998
130 m awayRef 199850C413422
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 21 May 1990
134 m awayRef 199050C410476
Slight
Morris Mini crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 10 February 1994
134 m awayRef 199450C410172
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 200850CD3E010 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 2008.