Unclassified road crash in East Devon EX5 on 23 March 2019 at 11:50 involving an Audi SQ5
An Audi SQ5 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in East Devon at 11:50 on Saturday 23 March 2019. An 83-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2019
- Saturday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi SQ5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.6745, longitude -3.40387, 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
- 2019500827318
- 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
- Dual 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
- 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, 30 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 March 2013.
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Van crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 22 March 2013
30 m awayRef 201350KE3M003
Serious
Car crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 6 June 1985
32 m awayRef 198550D310983
Slight
Car crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 6 December 1985
32 m awayRef 198550D312388
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 17 June 2025
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Slight
Bicycle crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 27 July 2024
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Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 9 August 1992
35 m awayRef 199250D311286
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi SQ5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 83, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi SQ5)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2019500827318 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 2019.