Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX19 on 24 November 2006 at 03:15 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on an unclassified road in Torridge at 03:15 on Friday 24 November 2006. The 38-year-old male 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
- 24 Nov 2006
- Friday, 03:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89393, longitude -4.02792, in the EX19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200650C41O877
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 July 2011.
Slight
Dennis crash on the B3217 in Torridge, 12 July 2011
19 m awayRef 201150CT2W001
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B3217 in Torridge, 14 January 2009
64 m awayRef 200950CT2W001
Serious
Van crash on the B3217 in Torridge, 12 November 1984
106 m awayRef 198450C430539
Fatal
Bicycle crash on the B3217 in Torridge, 26 September 1988
106 m awayRef 198850C435498
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 13 January 2010
114 m awayRef 201050CT2W001
Slight
Talbot Sunbeam crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 12 October 1990
190 m awayRef 199050C431109
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 200650C41O877 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.