A386 crash in Torridge on 20 March 2016 at 13:18 involving a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
A Land Rover Range Rover Evoque, a Renault Megane and a Vauxhall Astra van were involved in a crash on the A386 in Torridge at 13:18 on Sunday 20 March 2016. A 20-year-old male passenger in the Renault Megane was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Mar 2016
- Sunday, 13:18
- Vehicles
- 3
- Land Rover Range Rover Evoque and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92343, longitude -4.14565, in the EX38 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500060596
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 386
- Road type
- Dual 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A386 in Torridge, 23 April 2011
9 m awayRef 201150CT2J002
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A386 in Torridge, 1 December 2008
17 m awayRef 200850CT2J001
Serious
Honda CBR600F crash on the A386 in Torridge, 23 May 2015
37 m awayRef 201550CT2J004
Slight
Subaru Subaru crash on the A386 in Torridge, 25 June 2002
108 m awayRef 200250C434020
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in Torridge, 6 June 1986
122 m awayRef 198650C430505
Serious
Car crash on the A386 in Torridge, 21 January 1989
193 m awayRef 198950C430073
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Astra
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016500060596 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 2016.