A3072 crash in Torridge on 15 September 2021 at 00:15 involving a car
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 2021
- Wednesday, 00:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82151, longitude -4.41382, 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
- 2021501097451
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 2011.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 3 March 2011
13 m awayRef 201150CH2F001
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 30 August 2025
16 m awayRef 2025501635323
Slight
Citroen DS3 crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 22 December 2019
37 m awayRef 2019500926271
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 16 March 2013
39 m awayRef 201350CH2M002
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 12 December 2023
40 m awayRef 2023501398084
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 15 October 1987
46 m awayRef 198750C423188
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2021501097451 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 2021.