B3343 crash in North Devon on 12 May 2016 at 17:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B3343 in North Devon at 17:15 on Thursday 12 May 2016. A 35-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 2016
- Thursday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17719, longitude -4.14572, in the EX34 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ilfracombe West, North Devon, EX34 8NZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500079334
- 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
- 3343
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 2018.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 9 March 2018
3 m awayRef 2018500281120
Serious
Ford Probe crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 6 November 2003
26 m awayRef 200350C31Q861
Serious
Car crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 31 August 1981
35 m awayRef 198150H580451
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 2 February 2016
55 m awayRef 201650CI2R002
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A361 in West Devon, 1 May 2005
67 m awayRef 200550C31F027
Slight
Porsche 911 crash on the A361 in North Devon, 5 March 2004
67 m awayRef 200450C31C854
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2016500079334 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 2016.