Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 18 January 2006 at 21:21 involving a Toyota
A Toyota crashed on an unclassified road in Torridge at 21:21 on Wednesday 18 January 2006. The 30-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 2006
- Wednesday, 21:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03671, longitude -4.23713, in the EX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Westward Ho!. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westward Ho!, Torridge, EX39 1HS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200650C41A668
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 2008.
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Slight
Gilera crash on the A386 in Torridge, 30 September 1998
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Serious
Honda Jazz crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 17 February 2021
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Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 20 June 2009
89 m awayRef 200950CD3H003
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B3236 in Torridge, 15 September 2007
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,982 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota)
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 200650C41A668 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 2006.