A39 crash in North Devon on 25 September 2015 at 15:29 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto hit a pedestrian on the A39 in North Devon at 15:29 on Friday 25 September 2015. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Sep 2015
- Friday, 15:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07976, longitude -4.05431, in the EX32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnstaple. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barnstaple Central, North Devon, EX32 8HG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550CB2D038
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 39
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 April 2001.
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 18 April 2001
6 m awayRef 200150C212324
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Ford Fiesta crash on the A361 in North Devon, 26 July 2001
6 m awayRef 200150C214528
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A39 in North Devon, 25 September 2016
10 m awayRef 2016500114322
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Van crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 6 January 1989
10 m awayRef 198950C210011
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Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 21 October 2008
20 m awayRef 200850CB2D036
Slight
Mini John Cooper Works crash on the A39 in North Devon, 26 July 2011
26 m awayRef 201150CB2D037
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 201550CB2D038 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 2015.