Serious A3072 crash in Torridge on 27 May 1986 at 15:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A3072 in Torridge at 15:15 on Tuesday 27 May 1986. The 61-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured and the 34-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 May 1986
- Tuesday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81528, longitude -4.17323, in the EX21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198650C510453
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3072
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 86 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 February 2002.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 18 February 2002
86 m awayRef 200250C511007
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 30 June 2005
106 m awayRef 200550C42I249
Slight
Volvo crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 4 September 1995
122 m awayRef 199550C511143
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 26 January 2024
134 m awayRef 2024501403097
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 25 July 2015
170 m awayRef 201550CH3J001
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 28 May 2005
196 m awayRef 200550C43M520
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 198650C510453 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 1986.