Unclassified road crash in North Devon EX31 on 16 August 2011 at 18:13 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Devon at 18:13 on Tuesday 16 August 2011. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 2011
- Tuesday, 18:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08823, longitude -4.04988, in the EX31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnstaple. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barnstaple with Pilton, North Devon, EX31 1PS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150CB2S009
- Council area
- North Devon
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 2004.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 16 July 2004
50 m awayRef 200450C21K108
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A39 in North Devon, 5 November 2008
157 m awayRef 200850CB2S015
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 3 October 2008
217 m awayRef 200850CB2S013
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 3 May 2008
220 m awayRef 200850CB2S001
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the A39 in North Devon, 2 November 2006
235 m awayRef 200650C21O092
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 5 May 1995
237 m awayRef 199550C210539
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201150CB2S009 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 2011.