A3123 crash in North Devon on 16 March 2018 at 08:20 involving a goods vehicle
A goods vehicle hit a pedestrian on the A3123 in North Devon at 08:20 on Friday 16 March 2018. A 36-year-old male 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
- 16 Mar 2018
- Friday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Goods vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17886, longitude -4.11664, in the EX34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500279644
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3123
- 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, 45 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 March 2019.
Serious
BMW crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 29 March 2019
45 m awayRef 2019500834073
Slight
Kia Pride crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 4 July 1993
62 m awayRef 199350C310724
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 20 November 2025
69 m awayRef 2025501670916
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 2 September 2002
92 m awayRef 200250C315550
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 2 April 2022
97 m awayRef 2022501171035
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 15 May 2020
100 m awayRef 2020500953199
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 36, hit by vehicle 1 (Goods vehicle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
- 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 2018500279644 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 2018.