Serious unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 9 February 2022 at 07:34 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torridge at 07:34 on Wednesday 9 February 2022. A 60-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Feb 2022
- Wednesday, 07:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04053, longitude -4.2134, in the EX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northam. It is one of the crashes that make up the Appledore, Torridge, EX39 1EL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022501156850
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Torridge, 2 May 1986
2 m awayRef 198650C410359
Slight
Mercedes crash on a C road in Torridge, 16 September 1995
2 m awayRef 199550C411232
Slight
Seat Arosa crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 24 July 2013
4 m awayRef 201350CD2C010
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 7 December 2024
9 m awayRef 2024501527236
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 20 March 2023
9 m awayRef 2023501305876
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 31 July 2011
9 m awayRef 201150CD2C010
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,261 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2022501156850 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 2022.