A386 crash in Torridge on 23 September 2012 at 22:28 involving a Ford Galaxy taxi
A Ford Galaxy taxi hit a pedestrian on the A386 in Torridge at 22:28 on Sunday 23 September 2012. A 25-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 2012
- Sunday, 22:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01783, longitude -4.20465, in the EX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bideford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bideford North, Torridge, EX39 2AR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250CD3D018
- 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
- 386
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Raining with 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 2022.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A386 in Torridge, 31 August 2022
2 m awayRef 2022501215608
Slight
Car crash on the B3235 in Torridge, 22 April 1988
4 m awayRef 198850C414422
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in Torridge, 1 November 1983
4 m awayRef 198350C410539
Serious
Car crash on the A386 in Torridge, 5 November 2012
4 m awayRef 201250CD3D021
Slight
Lorry crash on the B3235 in Torridge, 9 January 1989
6 m awayRef 198950C410025
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A386 in Torridge, 19 September 1982
9 m awayRef 198250C410416
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Galaxy)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201250CD3D018 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 2012.