B3233 crash in North Devon on 25 February 2014 at 08:20 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on the B3233 in North Devon at 08:20 on Tuesday 25 February 2014. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Feb 2014
- Tuesday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07276, longitude -4.0951, in the EX31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bickington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bickington, North Devon, EX31 2LA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450CB3D001
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3233
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A39 in North Devon, 16 October 1986
4 m awayRef 198650C211107
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 31 October 1984
4 m awayRef 198450C210514
Slight
Optare Solo crash on the B3233 in North Devon, 11 November 2001
6 m awayRef 200150C217055
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3233 in North Devon, 9 December 2010
6 m awayRef 201050CB3D002
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A39 in North Devon, 24 November 1988
12 m awayRef 198850C215362
Serious
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 9 March 1980
21 m awayRef 198050H560082
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- 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 201450CB3D001 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 2014.