A3072 crash in Torridge on 9 November 2016 at 10:07 involving a Skoda Yeti
A Skoda Yeti and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A3072 in Torridge at 10:07 on Wednesday 9 November 2016. The 65-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Nov 2016
- Wednesday, 10:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Yeti and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81278, longitude -4.36376, in the EX22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Holsworthy.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500141472
- 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
- 3072
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 August 2017.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 3 August 2017
At the same spotRef 2017500265458
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 2 November 2012
At the same spotRef 201250CH2L009
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 4 November 2017
2 m awayRef 2017500241626
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 26 August 2019
13 m awayRef 2019500880526
Fatal
Peugeot 306 crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 9 June 2004
25 m awayRef 200450C42H597
Serious
Car crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 4 October 1980
27 m awayRef 198050H610464
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Yeti
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
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2016500141472 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.