Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 21 December 2014 at 12:00 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torridge at 12:00 on Sunday 21 December 2014. A 24-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
- 21 Dec 2014
- Sunday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99785, longitude -4.40042, in the EX39 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450CD2K006
- Council area
- Torridge
- 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
- Rural
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 245 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the B3237 in Torridge, 23 June 1983
245 m awayRef 198350C410275
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 23 July 2016
307 m awayRef 2016500108495
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the B3237 in Torridge, 27 April 1992
473 m awayRef 199250C410356
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3237 in Torridge, 14 July 1982
597 m awayRef 198250C410345
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B3237 in Torridge, 13 April 2004
624 m awayRef 200450C41E940
Serious
Car crash on the B3237 in Torridge, 29 September 1983
691 m awayRef 198350C230465
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 201450CD2K006 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 2014.