A3072 crash in Torridge on 5 July 2009 at 07:37 involving an Audi A6
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2009
- Sunday, 07:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A6 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81624, longitude -4.23382, in the EX22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200950CH2J004
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3072
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 140 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 2004.
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 10 March 2004
140 m awayRef 200450C42D494
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 2 December 1989
160 m awayRef 198950C421413
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 4 January 1994
240 m awayRef 199450C420010
Serious
Car crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 5 July 1981
241 m awayRef 198150H610322
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 6 August 2025
346 m awayRef 2025501625592
Slight
Honda crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 20 October 2025
427 m awayRef 2025501656643
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- 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
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 29, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200950CH2J004 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.