Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 14 November 2017 at 08:25 involving a Nissan Note
A Nissan Note and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torridge at 08:25 on Tuesday 14 November 2017. A 9-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Note was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 2017
- Tuesday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Note and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98028, longitude -4.34004, in the EX39 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500246632
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 39
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, 66 metres away, was a fatal crash on 27 August 2005.
Fatal
Mercedes 300 crash on the A39 in Torridge, 27 August 2005
66 m awayRef 200550C41K952
Slight
Kawasaki AR50 crash on the A39 in Torridge, 14 May 1990
134 m awayRef 199050C410445
Slight
Hyundai Sonata crash on the A39 in Torridge, 30 September 2005
146 m awayRef 200550C41N310
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A39 in Torridge, 14 July 2001
215 m awayRef 200150C414327
Serious
Car crash on the A39 in Torridge, 2 January 1981
235 m awayRef 198150H610001
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the A39 in Torridge, 3 October 2024
242 m awayRef 2024501499343
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Note)
- 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 2017500246632 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.