Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 1 October 2023 at 12:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torridge at 12:35 on Sunday 1 October 2023. The 23-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 2023
- Sunday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.975, longitude -4.21396, 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
- 2023501358486
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 628 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 August 2017.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A388 in Torridge, 20 August 2017
628 m awayRef 2017500219875
Slight
Honda CBR crash on the A388 in Torridge, 27 September 2023
630 m awayRef 2023501361873
Slight
Alfa Romeo 33 crash on the A388 in Torridge, 27 March 2001
632 m awayRef 200150C431839
Serious
Ford Galaxy crash on the A388 in Torridge, 10 March 2013
634 m awayRef 201350CT2E001
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A388 in Torridge, 26 March 2020
634 m awayRef 2020500947543
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A388 in Torridge, 13 March 1998
644 m awayRef 199850C411441
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
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 and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2023501358486 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 2023.