Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX21 on 9 December 2013 at 11:45 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on an unclassified road in Torridge at 11:45 on Monday 9 December 2013. The 80-year-old male driver 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
- 9 Dec 2013
- Monday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7924, longitude -4.20972, in the EX21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201350CH3J004
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 57 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 1980.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 26 January 1980
57 m awayRef 198050H610033
Fatal
Massey Ferguson crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 12 May 2013
178 m awayRef 201350CH3J001
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 28 November 2017
355 m awayRef 2017500249657
Slight
Land Rover 88 crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 5 July 2001
659 m awayRef 200150C534042
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in West Devon, 9 January 1981
938 m awayRef 198150H260013
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Torridge, 6 January 1984
1.0 km awayRef 198450C510006
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 201350CH3J004 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.