Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX22 on 20 November 2014 at 18:05 involving a Land Rover Defender
A Land Rover Defender crashed on an unclassified road in Torridge at 18:05 on Thursday 20 November 2014. The 24-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 2014
- Thursday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Defender
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83512, longitude -4.42527, in the EX22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450CH2F001
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no 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, 326 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 1988.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torridge, 12 October 1988
326 m awayRef 198850C425201
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 5 April 2007
386 m awayRef 200750C42E412
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 23 March 2024
798 m awayRef 2024501423992
Serious
Isuzu Trooper crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 15 January 2008
1.1 km awayRef 200850C42A646
Serious
MZ crash on the A3072 in Cornwall, 3 December 1998
1.4 km awayRef 199850B714748
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 29 January 1987
1.4 km awayRef 198750C422100
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Defender
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
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 201450CH2F001 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.