A388 crash in Torridge on 11 May 2011 at 11:10 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A car and a Land Rover Freelander were involved in a crash on the A388 in Torridge at 11:10 on Wednesday 11 May 2011. The 67-year-old female driver of the Land Rover Freelander was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 May 2011
- Wednesday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69539, longitude -4.32316, in the PL15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150CH3H001
- 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
- 388
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A388 in Torridge, 1 April 2000
45 m awayRef 200050C531642
Slight
ERF crash on the A388 in Torridge, 10 August 1998
119 m awayRef 199850C534746
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A388 in West Devon, 12 January 1979
127 m awayRef 197950G530029
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A388 in Torridge, 16 January 2013
162 m awayRef 201350CH3H001
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A388 in Torridge, 28 October 2010
188 m awayRef 201050CH3H006
Serious
Honda Concerto crash on the A388 in Torridge, 5 March 1999
200 m awayRef 199950C531258
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,951 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Freelander)
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 201150CH3H001 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.