B3174 crash in East Devon on 15 April 2017 at 10:32 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on the B3174 in East Devon at 10:32 on Saturday 15 April 2017. A 73-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 2017
- Saturday, 10:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.75086, longitude -3.27949, in the EX11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ottery St Mary. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ottery St Mary, East Devon, EX11 1AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500176501
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3174
- 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
- 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, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 1996.
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 25 July 1996
21 m awayRef 199650D352242
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 13 March 2025
24 m awayRef 2025501564385
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 20 March 2001
25 m awayRef 200150D352491
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 29 August 1985
25 m awayRef 198550D351623
Slight
Suzuki DR Z400 crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 21 May 2012
25 m awayRef 201250KO2J003
Slight
Car crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 20 October 1989
29 m awayRef 198950D351816
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 73, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017500176501 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 2017.