Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 19 March 2024 at 09:00 involving a Ford Galaxy
A Ford Galaxy hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torridge at 09:00 on Tuesday 19 March 2024. A 75-year-old male pedestrian was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Mar 2024
- Tuesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01784, longitude -4.20544, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024501422399
- 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
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 2016.
Slight
Fiat Doblo crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 15 September 2016
At the same spotRef 2016500110891
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Torridge, 17 March 1993
4 m awayRef 199350C410267
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 8 September 1999
6 m awayRef 199950C415260
Slight
Nissan Cabstar crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 18 June 2002
6 m awayRef 200250C413719
Fatal
Car crash on the B3235 in Torridge, 22 February 1980
11 m awayRef 198050H610056
Slight
Toyota Hilux crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 18 March 2006
12 m awayRef 200650C41D642
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,295 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 26 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 75, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Galaxy)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2024501422399 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 2024.