Unclassified road crash in West Devon PL19 on 30 April 2011 at 22:45 involving a Mercedes 190
A Mercedes 190 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Devon at 22:45 on Saturday 30 April 2011. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Apr 2011
- Saturday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes 190
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.54987, longitude -4.14604, in the PL19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tavistock. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tavistock South West, West Devon, PL19 8DH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150JT2B010
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 2000.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 31 May 2000
4 m awayRef 200050E611506
Slight
MZ crash on the A384 in West Devon, 9 August 1991
6 m awayRef 199150E611754
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A384 in West Devon, 12 November 1988
12 m awayRef 198850E612078
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A384 in West Devon, 8 January 1983
12 m awayRef 198350E610048
Slight
Car crash on the A384 in West Devon, 14 April 1982
16 m awayRef 198250G530291
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on a C road in West Devon, 12 July 1999
16 m awayRef 199950E611598
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes 190
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes 190)
- 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 201150JT2B010 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 2011.