B3232 crash in Torridge on 11 October 2014 at 13:15 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira crashed on the B3232 in Torridge at 13:15 on Saturday 11 October 2014. The 78-year-old male driver, a 47-year-old male passenger and a 74-year-old female passenger 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
- 11 Oct 2014
- Saturday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97902, longitude -4.09547, 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
- 201450CT2P003
- 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
- 3232
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 2008.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3232 in Torridge, 30 June 2008
4 m awayRef 200850CT2P001
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3232 in Torridge, 31 March 2006
6 m awayRef 200650C43E129
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B3232 in Torridge, 4 March 2009
6 m awayRef 200950CT2P001
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B3232 in Torridge, 2 February 2009
6 m awayRef 200950CT2O001
Slight
Peugeot Bipper crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 31 December 2020
9 m awayRef 2020501016835
Serious
Car crash on the B3232 in Torridge, 6 October 1988
12 m awayRef 198850C435191
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- 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 201450CT2P003 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.