B3231 crash in North Devon on 2 August 2015 at 16:30 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander hit a pedestrian on the B3231 in North Devon at 16:30 on Sunday 2 August 2015. A 38-year-old female 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
- 2 Aug 2015
- Sunday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.11862, longitude -4.22042, in the EX33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550CN2F003
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3231
- 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, 13 metres away, was a fatal crash on 13 June 1986.
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 13 June 1986
13 m awayRef 198650C230533
Slight
Car crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 4 May 1981
27 m awayRef 198150H560191
Serious
Car crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 11 June 1980
29 m awayRef 198050H560228
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 25 March 2002
38 m awayRef 200250C231802
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 26 August 2000
52 m awayRef 200050C234420
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 30 July 2019
55 m awayRef 2019500869789
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,951 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 201550CN2F003 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.