B3227 crash in Torridge on 15 February 2003 at 18:15 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the B3227 in Torridge at 18:15 on Saturday 15 February 2003. The 24-year-old male driver and a 24-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
- 15 Feb 2003
- Saturday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97099, longitude -4.07486, in the EX38 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200350C43F484
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3227
- 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, 73 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 2002.
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the B3227 in Torridge, 23 November 2002
73 m awayRef 200250C438067
Slight
Lorry crash on the B3227 in Torridge, 12 March 1987
76 m awayRef 198750C432220
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B3277 in Torridge, 17 January 1998
82 m awayRef 199850C530228
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3227 in Torridge, 23 July 2025
88 m awayRef 2025501620130
Slight
MG ZS crash on the B3227 in Torridge, 23 March 2024
103 m awayRef 2024501423921
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B3226 in Torridge, 24 November 1992
133 m awayRef 199250C431091
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- 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 200350C43F484 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.