Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX20 on 25 October 2017 at 10:25 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torridge at 10:25 on Wednesday 25 October 2017. The male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 2017
- Wednesday, 10:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86834, longitude -4.11751, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500236258
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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, 122 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 2025.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 16 April 2025
122 m awayRef 2025501580161
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Torridge, 12 November 1980
258 m awayRef 198050H610541
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 14 February 1996
458 m awayRef 199650C430574
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 2 February 2007
595 m awayRef 200750C51B538
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 7 August 2014
732 m awayRef 201450CT2I006
Slight
Leyland DAF FT 85CF crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 16 June 2000
759 m awayRef 200050C433066
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2017500236258 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 2017.