Unclassified road crash in the South Hams PL21 on 22 April 2010 at 11:05 involving a Leyland DAF FA 45 lorry
A Leyland DAF FA 45 lorry hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the South Hams at 11:05 on Thursday 22 April 2010. A 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
- 22 Apr 2010
- Thursday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland DAF FA 45
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.38666, longitude -3.86158, in the PL21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201050JS2K012
- Council area
- South Hams
- 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
- 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
- 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, 90 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2004.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 11 October 2004
90 m awayRef 200450E53O294
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 26 April 1999
106 m awayRef 199950E530910
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A3121 in the South Hams, 19 June 1992
149 m awayRef 199250F520905
Slight
Suzuki SV 650 crash on the B3210 in the South Hams, 6 September 2004
151 m awayRef 200450E53M989
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 27 May 2001
166 m awayRef 200150E533127
Slight
Suzuki GS 500 crash on the A3121 in the South Hams, 9 September 2001
184 m awayRef 200150F525598
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland DAF FA 45
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Leyland DAF FA 45)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201050JS2K012 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 2010.