C road crash in Torridge EX39 on 10 May 2012 at 00:02 involving a Renault Scenic
A Renault Scenic crashed on a C road in Torridge at 00:02 on Thursday 10 May 2012. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 May 2012
- Thursday, 00:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Scenic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00813, longitude -4.25048, in the EX39 postcode district.
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
- 201250CD3E011
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 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 lit
- 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, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 2011.
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 1 November 2011
34 m awayRef 201150CD2D004
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A39 in Torridge, 1 August 1998
70 m awayRef 199850C414467
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the A39 in Torridge, 5 August 1999
73 m awayRef 199950C414553
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 19 May 2015
74 m awayRef 201550CD3E007
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A39 in Torridge, 2 May 2005
75 m awayRef 200550C41F113
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A39 in Torridge, 15 April 1999
78 m awayRef 199950C412050
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Scenic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Scenic)
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 201250CD3E011 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.