Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 13 October 2010 at 10:10 involving an Optare bus
An Optare bus crashed on an unclassified road in Torridge at 10:10 on Wednesday 13 October 2010. A 58-year-old male passenger 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
- 13 Oct 2010
- Wednesday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Optare
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0154, longitude -4.2083, 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
- 201050CD3D030
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in Torridge, 10 June 1983
At the same spotRef 198350C410256
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Ford Escort crash on a C road in Torridge, 24 June 1995
10 m awayRef 199550C410758
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Honda GLR 125 crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 11 February 2022
28 m awayRef 2022501148616
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Car crash on the A386 in Torridge, 13 May 1996
30 m awayRef 199650C411464
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Mercedes 200 crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 15 November 2013
40 m awayRef 201350CD3E016
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 9 July 2001
41 m awayRef 200150C414139
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Optare
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 58, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Optare)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 201050CD3D030 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 2010.