Serious unclassified road crash in North Devon EX34 on 2 February 2014 at 15:00 involving an Audi A6
An Audi A6 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Devon at 15:00 on Sunday 2 February 2014. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Feb 2014
- Sunday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2104, longitude -4.11705, in the EX34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ilfracombe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ilfracombe East, North Devon, EX34 9JS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450CI2B001
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 1999.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 19 August 1999
6 m awayRef 199950C314848
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 13 June 1994
24 m awayRef 199450C310679
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 13 July 2009
25 m awayRef 200950CI2B015
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 4 August 2002
25 m awayRef 200250C314850
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 24 January 2017
29 m awayRef 2017500176867
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 23 August 1991
34 m awayRef 199150C310807
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,172 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A6)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 201450CI2B001 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.