A3072 crash in Torridge on 19 August 2018 at 21:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A3072 in Torridge at 21:50 on Sunday 19 August 2018. The 18-year-old male driver and a 21-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 2018
- Sunday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82293, longitude -4.43442, in the EX22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500800002
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
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, 28 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 August 2016.
Serious
Honda CRV crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 4 August 2016
28 m awayRef 2016500120203
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 27 April 1982
55 m awayRef 198250C420142
Slight
Bedford crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 14 August 1990
72 m awayRef 199050C420862
Slight
Subaru 284 crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 5 June 1990
170 m awayRef 199050C420583
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 27 May 2010
217 m awayRef 201050CH2F001
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 28 September 1993
221 m awayRef 199350C421232
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018500800002 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 2018.