Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 7 February 2020 at 10:28 involving a Ford Ecosport
A Ford Ecosport hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torridge at 10:28 on Friday 7 February 2020. A 50-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Feb 2020
- Friday, 10:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Ecosport
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01724, longitude -4.21286, in the EX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bideford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bideford North, Torridge, EX39 2AR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020500933561
- Council area
- Torridge
- 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
- 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
- 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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 1981.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torridge, 14 December 1981
16 m awayRef 198150H610667
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torridge, 14 October 1985
26 m awayRef 198550C410465
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 7 May 1998
42 m awayRef 199850C412470
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Torridge, 20 December 1979
42 m awayRef 197950H610610
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 1 August 2000
61 m awayRef 200050C413868
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 25 November 1998
63 m awayRef 199850C417131
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Ecosport
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
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Ecosport)
- 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 2020500933561 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torridge road accident statistics for 2020.