Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 1 November 2011 at 13:28 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon crashed on an unclassified road in Torridge at 13:28 on Tuesday 1 November 2011. The 70-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Nov 2011
- Tuesday, 13:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00793, longitude -4.25086, 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
- 201150CD2D004
- 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
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 2012.
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on a C road in Torridge, 10 May 2012
34 m awayRef 201250CD3E011
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the A39 in Torridge, 5 August 1999
64 m awayRef 199950C414553
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A39 in Torridge, 15 April 1999
72 m awayRef 199950C412050
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in Torridge, 19 July 1986
73 m awayRef 198650C410727
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A39 in Torridge, 2 May 2005
76 m awayRef 200550C41F113
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in Torridge, 5 September 1983
81 m awayRef 198350C410414
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
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 201150CD2D004 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 2011.