Serious unclassified road crash in Mid Devon EX16 on 14 August 2012 at 17:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Mid Devon at 17:30 on Tuesday 14 August 2012. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Aug 2012
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90172, longitude -3.4713, in the EX16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tiverton.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250KT3A011
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 July 1989.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 15 July 1989
33 m awayRef 198950D411183
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 24 April 1989
60 m awayRef 198950D410618
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 30 November 1981
84 m awayRef 198150L900936
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 21 April 1987
84 m awayRef 198750D410526
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 6 June 2007
84 m awayRef 200750D41G334
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 19 January 2012
90 m awayRef 201250KT3A001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201250KT3A011 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 2012.