B3215 crash in West Devon on 18 December 2019 at 18:13 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 hit a pedestrian on the B3215 in West Devon at 18:13 on Wednesday 18 December 2019. A 68-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2019
- Wednesday, 18:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.74097, longitude -3.99599, in the EX20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Okehampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Okehampton South, West Devon, EX20 1AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019500925537
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3215
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 September 2001.
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 18 September 2001
5 m awayRef 200150C515786
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 13 December 1995
16 m awayRef 199550C511632
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3260 in West Devon, 1 November 1999
17 m awayRef 199950C516555
Slight
Car crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 24 March 1989
18 m awayRef 198950C510303
Fatal
Ford Mondeo crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 24 December 1995
26 m awayRef 199550C511711
Slight
Car crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 2 November 2009
28 m awayRef 200950JO2R004
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 68, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2019500925537 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 2019.