Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 10 August 2008 at 21:50 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on an unclassified road in Torridge at 21:50 on Sunday 10 August 2008. The 42-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2008
- Sunday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03716, longitude -4.23715, 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
- 200850CD3H003
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,581 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 200850CD3H003 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 2008.