B3232 crash in Torridge on 26 August 2010 at 19:15 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the B3232 in Torridge at 19:15 on Thursday 26 August 2010. A 64-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra 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
- 26 Aug 2010
- Thursday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.9572, longitude -4.13121, in the EX38 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Torrington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Great Torrington, Torridge, EX38 7BH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201050CT2I013
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3232
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 2018.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B3232 in Torridge, 30 June 2018
7 m awayRef 2018500309847
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3232 in Torridge, 21 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199950C436718
Slight
Iveco Daily crash on the B3232 in Torridge, 10 July 2008
10 m awayRef 200850CT2I007
Slight
Car crash on the B3232 in Torridge, 2 August 1985
10 m awayRef 198550C430307
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3232 in Torridge, 27 January 1992
20 m awayRef 199250C430076
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B3232 in Torridge, 13 July 2003
54 m awayRef 200350C43I212
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 201050CT2I013 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.