Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX4 on 26 January 2017 at 16:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Exeter at 16:20 on Thursday 26 January 2017. A 16-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 2017
- Thursday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72575, longitude -3.53348, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500159111
- Council area
- Exeter
- 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
- 20 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 20 July 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 20 July 2011
3 m awayRef 201150DE2I054
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 4 October 1984
5 m awayRef 198450D211753
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 15 December 1998
5 m awayRef 199850D217644
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 27 June 1988
5 m awayRef 198850D210981
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 3 August 1998
5 m awayRef 199850D214425
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 5 May 2015
10 m awayRef 201550DE2I021
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
SlightFemale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2017500159111 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 2017.