Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX2 on 23 August 2019 at 22:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Exeter at 22:00 on Friday 23 August 2019. A 27-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 2019
- Friday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.714, longitude -3.50458, in the EX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newtown and St Leonard's, Exeter, EX2 4RA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Exeter
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019500875523
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 24 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 July 1986.
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 30 July 1986
24 m awayRef 198650D211435
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 24 October 1983
24 m awayRef 198350D212015
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 19 March 1986
27 m awayRef 198650D210417
Serious
Mazda B2000 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 7 January 1993
28 m awayRef 199350D210047
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 5 November 1993
28 m awayRef 199350D212736
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 8 January 1988
49 m awayRef 198850D210029
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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 27, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2019500875523 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 2019.