A388 crash in Torridge on 4 September 2000 at 22:15 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 crashed on the A388 in Torridge at 22:15 on Monday 4 September 2000. A 17-year-old male passenger and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Sep 2000
- Monday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 205
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88102, longitude -4.29748, in the EX22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050C424639
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 388
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 2008.
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A388 in Torridge, 30 October 2008
14 m awayRef 200850CH2D002
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A388 in Torridge, 8 April 2005
41 m awayRef 200550C42E341
Slight
Car crash on the A388 in Torridge, 18 August 2019
93 m awayRef 2019500908516
Slight
Van crash on the A388 in Torridge, 24 August 1988
126 m awayRef 198850C424962
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A388 in Torridge, 19 April 2012
156 m awayRef 201250CH2D002
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A388 in Torridge, 15 December 2004
221 m awayRef 200450C42R799
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200050C424639 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 2000.