Unclassified road crash in the South Hams PL21 on 12 May 2017 at 17:55 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the South Hams at 17:55 on Friday 12 May 2017. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 2017
- Friday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.38802, longitude -3.93183, in the PL21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ivybridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ivybridge West, South Hams, PL21 9AL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500214891
- Council area
- South Hams
- 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
- Urban
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 2007.
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 14 July 2007
4 m awayRef 200750E53I408
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the South Hams, 13 June 1982
29 m awayRef 198250G460467
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the South Hams, 22 March 1984
39 m awayRef 198450E530549
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in the South Hams, 23 November 1982
57 m awayRef 198250G461143
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 16 August 1990
90 m awayRef 199050E531845
Serious
Piaggio Typhoon crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 9 August 2010
102 m awayRef 201050JI2A012
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 2017500214891 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 2017.