Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX4 on 8 December 2011 at 20:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Exeter at 20:40 on Thursday 8 December 2011. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2011
- Thursday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73802, longitude -3.50187, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mincinglake and Whipton, Exeter, EX4 8AY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Exeter
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150DE2D011
- Council area
- Exeter
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 6 May 2002
1 m awayRef 200250D212683
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 27 February 1994
37 m awayRef 199450D210491
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 13 August 1988
64 m awayRef 198850D211281
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 17 April 2001
80 m awayRef 200150D212250
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 26 October 1996
88 m awayRef 199650D213341
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 7 October 1979
100 m awayRef 197950J661009
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 201150DE2D011 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 2011.