Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX1 on 8 June 2018 at 15:25 involving an Opel
An Opel hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Exeter at 15:25 on Friday 8 June 2018. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jun 2018
- Friday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Opel
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73068, longitude -3.48171, in the EX1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pinhoe, Exeter, EX4 8EH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500303529
- Council area
- Exeter
- 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
- 20 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
- B
- Second road number
- 3181
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 February 2025.
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 11 February 2025
5 m awayRef 2025501597639
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 21 July 1980
5 m awayRef 198050J670719
Slight
Car crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 16 April 1980
5 m awayRef 198050J670397
Slight
Car crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 31 May 1984
5 m awayRef 198450D210861
Slight
Car crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 13 July 1986
5 m awayRef 198650D211298
Slight
Suzuki Celerio crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 17 September 2024
7 m awayRef 2024501492632
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Opel
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Opel)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018500303529 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 2018.