A399 crash in North Devon on 23 August 2014 at 12:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A399 in North Devon at 12:15 on Saturday 23 August 2014. A 44-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
- 23 Aug 2014
- Saturday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.20446, longitude -4.03317, in the EX34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Combe Martin.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450CI2F006
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 399
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 April 1979.
Serious
Car crash on the A399 in North Devon, 11 April 1979
36 m awayRef 197950H580117
Slight
Van crash on the A399 in North Devon, 31 August 1984
60 m awayRef 198450C310416
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 5 March 2018
95 m awayRef 2018500276531
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A399 in North Devon, 12 August 1986
96 m awayRef 198650C510956
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A399 in North Devon, 26 September 1995
96 m awayRef 199550C311272
Serious
Car crash on the A399 in North Devon, 5 December 1981
138 m awayRef 198150H580647
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 201450CI2F006 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.