Unclassified road crash in East Devon EX5 on 25 November 2017 at 12:43 involving a Ford Transit Custom van
A Ford Transit Custom van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in East Devon at 12:43 on Saturday 25 November 2017. A 6-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Nov 2017
- Saturday, 12:43
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76139, longitude -3.44018, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500248531
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 1993.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 25 June 1993
51 m awayRef 199350D211533
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 9 October 2010
103 m awayRef 201050KO2L013
Serious
Car crash on the B3181 in East Devon, 13 December 1989
140 m awayRef 198950D212214
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3181 in East Devon, 17 November 2005
168 m awayRef 200550D35P191
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3181 in East Devon, 26 November 2025
170 m awayRef 2025501684531
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the B3181 in East Devon, 6 November 2019
171 m awayRef 2019500900370
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Transit Custom)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2017500248531 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.