Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 18 April 2016 at 09:10 involving a goods vehicle
A goods vehicle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torridge at 09:10 on Monday 18 April 2016. A 33-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
- 18 Apr 2016
- Monday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Goods vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04375, longitude -4.21733, in the EX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northam. It is one of the crashes that make up the Appledore, Torridge, EX39 1EL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500072192
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2016.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 10 June 2016
At the same spotRef 2016500088147
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 1 December 2012
1 m awayRef 201250CD2C013
Slight
BMW M1 crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 31 May 2024
25 m awayRef 2024501450479
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 1 December 2003
51 m awayRef 200350C41S089
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torridge, 9 January 1986
54 m awayRef 198650C410019
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Torridge, 15 March 1982
59 m awayRef 198250C410104
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Goods vehicle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016500072192 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torridge road accident statistics for 2016.