Serious unclassified road crash in North Devon EX31 on 30 November 2015 at 17:17 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Devon at 17:17 on Monday 30 November 2015. A 44-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Nov 2015
- Monday, 17:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.06525, longitude -4.08863, in the EX31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnstaple. 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
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550CB2R015
- 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
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 1996.
Slight
Leyland DAF 200 crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 16 April 1996
58 m awayRef 199650C211118
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on a C road in North Devon, 10 May 1997
130 m awayRef 199750C211502
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in North Devon, 26 September 1995
131 m awayRef 199550C211329
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in North Devon, 19 April 2006
131 m awayRef 200650C21G293
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 14 February 2025
131 m awayRef 2025501561335
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 15 June 2013
143 m awayRef 201350CB2R003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 201550CB2R015 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.