A3072 crash in Torridge on 28 November 2005 at 08:35 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a car were involved in a crash on the A3072 in Torridge at 08:35 on Monday 28 November 2005. The 39-year-old female driver of the car, a 13-year-old female passenger in the car and an 11-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 2005
- Monday, 08:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81678, longitude -4.21028, 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
- 200550C43Q033
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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 serious injury crash on 14 July 2004.
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 14 July 2004
At the same spotRef 200450C43J162
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 8 August 2023
5 m awayRef 2023501339862
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 20 May 1980
10 m awayRef 198050H610189
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 1 April 2006
10 m awayRef 200650C43D881
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 7 July 2013
19 m awayRef 201350CH3J002
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 26 May 2024
33 m awayRef 2024501450620
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 200550C43Q033 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.