A386 crash in Torridge on 11 February 2013 at 08:50 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A car and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the A386 in Torridge at 08:50 on Monday 11 February 2013. The 46-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Vectra and a 20-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Vectra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 2013
- Monday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03635, longitude -4.21344, in the EX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northam. It is one of the crashes that make up the Northam, Torridge, EX39 2RP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201350CD2C003
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 3236
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in Torridge, 12 August 1986
10 m awayRef 198650C410854
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in Torridge, 20 March 1986
10 m awayRef 198650C410208
Serious
Car crash on the A386 in Torridge, 23 March 1986
10 m awayRef 198650C410215
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the A386 in Torridge, 21 December 1999
10 m awayRef 199950C417405
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A386 in Torridge, 2 October 2001
10 m awayRef 200150C416121
Serious
Car crash on the A386 in Torridge, 18 October 1980
14 m awayRef 198050H610495
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201350CD2C003 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 2013.