Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 31 January 2007 at 16:01 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in Torridge at 16:01 on Wednesday 31 January 2007. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 2007
- Wednesday, 16:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01255, longitude -4.21615, in the EX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bideford.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750C41B119
- 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
- 40 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 January 2017.
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12 m awayRef 2017500156522
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Van crash on the A39 in Torridge, 8 March 1984
14 m awayRef 198450C410086
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Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 21 December 2000
14 m awayRef 200050C417334
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Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 1 November 2006
20 m awayRef 200650C41O385
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Car crash on the A39 in Torridge, 23 August 1980
41 m awayRef 198050H610389
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Car crash on the A39 in Torridge, 27 July 1986
41 m awayRef 198650C410771
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 200750C41B119 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 2007.