Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 4 June 2016 at 23:16 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 crashed on an unclassified road in Torridge at 23:16 on Saturday 4 June 2016. A 30-year-old male passenger and a 33-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jun 2016
- Saturday, 23:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01453, longitude -4.19613, in the EX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bideford.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500080882
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 1996.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 16 June 1996
2 m awayRef 199650C411841
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 14 September 2025
7 m awayRef 2025501641684
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Torridge, 11 November 1983
8 m awayRef 198350C410552
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Torridge, 15 July 1988
9 m awayRef 198850C414784
Slight
Piaggio Zip crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 14 January 2009
9 m awayRef 200950CD2E002
Slight
Piaggio Zip crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 25 July 2006
9 m awayRef 200650C41I896
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2016500080882 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.