B3260 crash in West Devon on 16 May 2024 at 15:35 involving a Land Rover Discovery
A Land Rover Discovery hit a pedestrian on the B3260 in West Devon at 15:35 on Thursday 16 May 2024. A 15-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
- 16 May 2024
- Thursday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.74138, longitude -3.98149, in the EX20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Okehampton.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024501449284
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3260
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 January 2022.
Slight
Jaguar XE Series crash on the B3260 in West Devon, 6 January 2022
17 m awayRef 2022501138642
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the B3260 in West Devon, 6 October 2021
19 m awayRef 2021501108119
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the B3260 in West Devon, 29 April 2024
20 m awayRef 2024501436898
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3260 in West Devon, 8 April 2005
24 m awayRef 200550C51E010
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B3260 in West Devon, 25 September 2007
24 m awayRef 200750C51L461
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the B3260 in West Devon, 30 September 2001
48 m awayRef 200150C516050
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Land Rover Discovery)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2024501449284 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 2024.