Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 17 October 2011 at 16:42 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torridge at 16:42 on Monday 17 October 2011. A 7-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Oct 2011
- Monday, 16:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01194, longitude -4.19114, 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
- 201150CD2E008
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 February 2011.
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 9 February 2011
42 m awayRef 201150CD2E002
Slight
LDV 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 16 August 2010
49 m awayRef 201050CD2E006
Slight
Minibus crash on a C road in Torridge, 7 February 1980
91 m awayRef 198050H610043
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 28 December 1988
109 m awayRef 198850C415486
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 3 February 1999
109 m awayRef 199950C410669
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 5 March 1998
129 m awayRef 199850C411264
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
- 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 201150CD2E008 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 2011.