Serious unclassified road crash in East Devon EX8 on 19 December 2012 at 20:20 involving a Mercedes CLK Class
A Mercedes CLK Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in East Devon at 20:20 on Wednesday 19 December 2012. A 57-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 2012
- Wednesday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes CLK Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.6205, longitude -3.41288, in the EX8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Exmouth Town, East Devon, EX8 1RD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250KE2D033
- Council area
- East 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 1987.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 14 May 1987
2 m awayRef 198750D310666
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 24 May 2002
2 m awayRef 200250D313071
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 21 December 2023
9 m awayRef 2023501406862
Slight
Volvo 850 crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 31 August 2001
9 m awayRef 200150D315467
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A376 in East Devon, 17 January 2000
9 m awayRef 200050D310282
Slight
Minibus crash on a C road in East Devon, 4 November 1989
11 m awayRef 198950D311942
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes CLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 57, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes CLK Class)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 201250KE2D033 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 2012.