A3072 crash in Torridge on 28 May 2005 at 08:55 involving a Nissan Primera
A Nissan Primera and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on the A3072 in Torridge at 08:55 on Saturday 28 May 2005. The 64-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 306, a 3-year-old male passenger in the Nissan Primera and a 67-year-old male passenger in the Peugeot 306 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 May 2005
- Saturday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Primera and Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81472, longitude -4.17596, in the EX21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550C43M520
- 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
- 3072
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 2003.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 13 April 2003
At the same spotRef 200350C42D312
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 23 September 1982
10 m awayRef 198250C510425
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 24 October 1989
121 m awayRef 198950C511218
Serious
Car crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 27 May 1986
196 m awayRef 198650C510453
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 18 February 2002
279 m awayRef 200250C511007
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 30 June 2005
295 m awayRef 200550C42I249
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Primera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 306)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Primera)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 306)
- 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 200550C43M520 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 2005.