A3072 crash in Torridge on 19 December 2018 at 16:00 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A3072 in Torridge at 16:00 on Wednesday 19 December 2018. A 72-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2018
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 207 and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81342, longitude -4.35625, in the EX22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Holsworthy. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holsworthy, Torridge, EX22 6GA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500806558
- 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
- 30 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 27 January 1987
4 m awayRef 198750C422067
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 10 October 1983
4 m awayRef 198350C420497
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 18 December 1993
12 m awayRef 199350C421621
Serious
Seat Mii crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 15 February 2024
21 m awayRef 2024501416438
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 16 January 2003
24 m awayRef 200350C42B505
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 14 December 2002
30 m awayRef 200250C427652
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 2018500806558 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.