A388 crash in Torridge on 1 May 2003 at 17:39 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the A388 in Torridge at 17:39 on Thursday 1 May 2003. The 20-year-old male driver, a 20-year-old male passenger and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 May 2003
- Thursday, 17:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78819, longitude -4.33875, 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
- 200350C42E766
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 63 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 2009.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A388 in Torridge, 18 January 2009
63 m awayRef 200950CH2M001
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the A388 in Torridge, 19 December 2009
71 m awayRef 200950CH2M011
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A388 in Torridge, 18 December 2007
82 m awayRef 200750C42P490
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A388 in Torridge, 21 November 1993
90 m awayRef 199350C421485
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A388 in Torridge, 31 March 2002
100 m awayRef 200250C421975
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A388 in Torridge, 16 April 2002
100 m awayRef 200250C422321
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- 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 200350C42E766 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 2003.