A3072 crash in Torridge on 4 January 2011 at 15:36 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Skoda Fabia were involved in a crash on the A3072 in Torridge at 15:36 on Tuesday 4 January 2011. The 18-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jan 2011
- Tuesday, 15:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81734, longitude -4.39814, 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
- 201150CH2N001
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 8 April 2015
9 m awayRef 201550CH2N003
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 4 October 2008
11 m awayRef 200850CH2N001
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 13 March 2001
11 m awayRef 200150C421513
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 4 May 1987
11 m awayRef 198750C422400
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 3 August 2006
11 m awayRef 200650C42J606
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 23 August 2005
11 m awayRef 200550B71K962
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 201150CH2N001 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.