A386 crash in Torridge on 24 April 2007 at 12:00 involving a Rover 600 Series
A Rover 600 Series and a Renault Scenic were involved in a crash on the A386 in Torridge at 12:00 on Tuesday 24 April 2007. The 64-year-old male driver of the Renault Scenic was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 2007
- Tuesday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 600 Series and Renault Scenic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01799, longitude -4.20472, in the EX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bideford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bideford North, Torridge, EX39 2AR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750C41E414
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 386
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 2013.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A386 in Torridge, 17 May 2013
4 m awayRef 201350CD3D011
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A386 in Torridge, 19 September 1982
10 m awayRef 198250C410416
Serious
Van crash on the A386 in Torridge, 13 October 1982
10 m awayRef 198250C410472
Serious
Car crash on the A386 in Torridge, 5 November 2012
16 m awayRef 201250CD3D021
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A386 in Torridge, 31 August 2022
17 m awayRef 2022501215608
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A386 in Torridge, 23 September 2012
18 m awayRef 201250CD3D018
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,977 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Scenic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Scenic)
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 200750C41E414 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.