Serious unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 3 May 2014 at 20:30 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Torridge at 20:30 on Saturday 3 May 2014. A 76-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 May 2014
- Saturday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04286, longitude -4.22838, in the EX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Westward Ho!. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westward Ho!, Torridge, EX39 1HS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450CD2C004
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 27 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 April 2006.
Serious
Peugeot crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 17 April 2006
27 m awayRef 200650C41E586
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torridge, 31 May 1980
31 m awayRef 198050H610204
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 10 May 2017
34 m awayRef 2017500184344
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 30 April 2002
74 m awayRef 200250C412512
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 21 June 2000
84 m awayRef 200050C413115
Slight
Austin Mini crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 11 August 2003
95 m awayRef 200350C41M772
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 76, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Boarding
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 201450CD2C004 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 2014.