Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 6 October 2009 at 16:56 involving a Kia Picanto
A car and a Kia Picanto were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torridge at 16:56 on Tuesday 6 October 2009. The 45-year-old female driver of the Kia Picanto was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 2009
- Tuesday, 16:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Kia Picanto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98181, longitude -4.32639, in the EX39 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200950CD2I007
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 1994.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A39 in Torridge, 23 November 1994
10 m awayRef 199450C411436
Serious
Car crash on the A39 in Torridge, 5 September 1987
20 m awayRef 198750C412963
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A39 in Torridge, 17 February 1990
50 m awayRef 199050C410160
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the A39 in Torridge, 16 August 2000
64 m awayRef 200050C414240
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A39 in Torridge, 20 June 1997
78 m awayRef 199750C412087
Serious
MG ZR crash on the A39 in Torridge, 6 November 2013
112 m awayRef 201350CD2I004
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Kia Picanto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,086 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Picanto)
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 200950CD2I007 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 2009.