B3227 crash in Torridge on 28 August 2014 at 19:30 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a car were involved in a crash on the B3227 in Torridge at 19:30 on Thursday 28 August 2014. The 43-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van and the 48-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 2014
- Thursday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97331, longitude -4.06675, in the EX31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450CT2P002
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3227
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 July 2016.
Slight
Yamaha FZS 600 crash on the B3227 in Torridge, 6 July 2016
2 m awayRef 2016500102859
Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on the B3227 in Torridge, 27 August 2020
3 m awayRef 2020500979247
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the B3227 in Torridge, 6 April 1997
4 m awayRef 199750C431123
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the B3227 in Torridge, 2 August 2022
5 m awayRef 2022501205086
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 21 December 2001
7 m awayRef 200150C438172
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B3227 in Torridge, 1 May 2009
7 m awayRef 200950CT2P002
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 201450CT2P002 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.