A30 crash in Torridge on 3 April 2011 at 14:55 involving a Vauxhall Tigra
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Apr 2011
- Sunday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Tigra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.66696, longitude -4.25793, in the PL16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150CH3F001
- 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
- 30
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsavan crash on the A30 in Torridge, 5 February 2013
30 m awayRef 201350CH3F002
Serious
Citroen Relay crash on the A30 in West Devon, 31 August 2024
91 m awayRef 2024501485740
Slight
Suzuki Wagon R+ crash on the A30 in Torridge, 2 June 2017
93 m awayRef 2017500190210
Serious
Volvo V40 crash on the A30 in Torridge, 27 June 2016
133 m awayRef 2016500100358
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 11 October 1990
172 m awayRef 199050C531096
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A30 in Torridge, 21 August 2010
246 m awayRef 201050CH3F002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Tigra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Tigra)
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 201150CH3F001 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.