A3072 crash in Torridge on 15 November 2010 at 12:47 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander and a Skoda Octavia were involved in a crash on the A3072 in Torridge at 12:47 on Monday 15 November 2010. A 68-year-old female passenger in the Land Rover Freelander was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Nov 2010
- Monday, 12:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Freelander and Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81245, longitude -4.33968, in the EX22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holsworthy, Torridge, EX22 6GA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201050CH2L010
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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 7 August 2001.
Slight
Skoda Felicia crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 7 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200150C424858
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 3 November 2006
At the same spotRef 200650C42N923
Slight
John Deere 6100 Series crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 29 November 2018
8 m awayRef 2018500803838
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 14 August 1988
10 m awayRef 198850C425495
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A388 in Torridge, 1 November 2004
10 m awayRef 200450C42P568
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 26 September 1987
10 m awayRef 198750C423080
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,951 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201050CH2L010 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.