Serious unclassified road crash in Exeter EX4 on 22 May 2016 at 12:03 involving an Audi A6
An Audi A6 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Exeter at 12:03 on Sunday 22 May 2016. A 76-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 May 2016
- Sunday, 12:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72237, longitude -3.53458, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the St David's, Exeter, EX1 1GH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Exeter
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500073645
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 9 November 2013
1 m awayRef 201350DE2I058
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 8 June 2002
8 m awayRef 200250D213387
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 2 May 2003
8 m awayRef 200350D21J635
Serious
Citroen C8 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 24 February 2012
8 m awayRef 201250DE2I013
Slight
Toyota Previa crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 7 August 2007
15 m awayRef 200750D21J357
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 3 June 2007
17 m awayRef 200750D21G193
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 76, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A6)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2016500073645 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 2016.