A386 crash in Torridge on 18 May 2007 at 16:30 involving a Peugeot 406
A Peugeot 406 and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on the A386 in Torridge at 16:30 on Friday 18 May 2007. The 19-year-old female driver of the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 2007
- Friday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 406 and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01501, longitude -4.20515, 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
- 200750C41F785
- 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
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 May 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in Torridge, 9 May 1981
At the same spotRef 198150H610200
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A386 in Torridge, 6 March 2021
6 m awayRef 2021501028449
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A386 in Torridge, 20 July 1993
22 m awayRef 199350C410817
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A386 in Torridge, 24 December 1990
28 m awayRef 199050C411398
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A386 in Torridge, 20 January 1991
28 m awayRef 199150C410064
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A386 in Torridge, 17 November 2025
42 m awayRef 2025501707650
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
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 200750C41F785 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.