Unclassified road crash in the South Hams TQ9 on 5 November 2015 at 16:44 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the South Hams at 16:44 on Thursday 5 November 2015. An 82-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2015
- Thursday, 16:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.42999, longitude -3.69188, in the TQ9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Totnes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Totnes, South Hams, TQ9 5QF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550JS2P017
- Council area
- South Hams
- 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
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 2018.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 25 July 2018
4 m awayRef 2018500322436
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 3 May 2016
5 m awayRef 2016500070635
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 20 October 2006
9 m awayRef 200650F51N197
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 1 April 1998
33 m awayRef 199850F511753
Serious
Car crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 28 February 1980
36 m awayRef 198050G510153
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 7 May 2010
36 m awayRef 201050JS2P008
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- 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
- 57 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 82, 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 201550JS2P017 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 2015.