Unclassified road crash in West Devon PL20 on 8 April 2018 at 10:40 involving a BMW X3
A BMW X3 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Devon at 10:40 on Sunday 8 April 2018. A 67-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 2018
- Sunday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW X3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.49804, longitude -4.09529, in the PL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500285871
- Council area
- West Devon
- 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
- 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
- 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, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 April 2019.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A386 in West Devon, 24 April 2019
30 m awayRef 2019500836322
Serious
Honda NSR125 crash on the A386 in West Devon, 9 November 2005
47 m awayRef 200550E61O595
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 20 August 1987
50 m awayRef 198750E611468
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A386 in West Devon, 28 July 1998
60 m awayRef 199850E611691
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 16 April 1987
60 m awayRef 198750E610668
Serious
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 8 October 1994
70 m awayRef 199450E612561
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW X3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 67, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW X3)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018500285871 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 2018.