Serious A386 crash in Torridge on 28 August 2016 at 11:58 involving a Ford Focus
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Aug 2016
- Sunday, 11:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96772, longitude -4.17648, in the EX38 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500125181
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 April 2018.
Slight
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on the A386 in Torridge, 14 April 2018
36 m awayRef 2018500291016
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A386 in Torridge, 23 July 2023
43 m awayRef 2023501332386
Slight
Mazda crash on the A386 in Torridge, 31 August 2023
58 m awayRef 2023501347375
Slight
Suzuki Grand Vitara crash on the A386 in Torridge, 31 July 2022
89 m awayRef 2022501224688
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A386 in Torridge, 22 August 2016
104 m awayRef 2016500124529
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A386 in Torridge, 27 November 2019
112 m awayRef 2019500915948
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016500125181 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.