Serious unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 18 May 2013 at 12:07 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torridge at 12:07 on Saturday 18 May 2013. A 4-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 May 2013
- Saturday, 12:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01087, longitude -4.19018, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201350CD2E005
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 57 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 February 1999.
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 3 February 1999
57 m awayRef 199950C410669
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 28 December 1988
57 m awayRef 198850C415486
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Torridge, 12 June 1988
85 m awayRef 198850C414627
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 4 April 1989
85 m awayRef 198950C410340
Slight
LDV 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 16 August 2010
98 m awayRef 201050CD2E006
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 9 February 2011
108 m awayRef 201150CD2E002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- 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 201350CD2E005 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 2013.