C road crash in Torridge EX39 on 8 February 1997 at 13:50 involving a Fiat Panda
A Fiat Panda crashed on a C road in Torridge at 13:50 on Saturday 8 February 1997. A 49-year-old female passenger 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
- 8 Feb 1997
- Saturday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Panda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04432, longitude -4.21817, in the EX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northam.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199750C410358
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 2014.
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Torridge, 12 September 1983
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Serious
Seat Toledo crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 4 November 2018
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Serious
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 1 December 2003
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Panda
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Panda)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199750C410358 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 1997.