Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 12 December 2023 at 13:28 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torridge at 13:28 on Tuesday 12 December 2023. The 51-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo and the 20-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2023
- Tuesday, 13:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01719, longitude -4.22696, in the EX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bideford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023501387299
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 2018.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 28 January 2018
2 m awayRef 2018500268269
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on a C road in Torridge, 17 May 1993
7 m awayRef 199350C410491
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torridge, 24 March 1988
97 m awayRef 198850C414348
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 29 April 2016
108 m awayRef 2016500068096
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torridge, 12 March 1997
124 m awayRef 199750C410885
Slight
Vehicle crash on a C road in Torridge, 4 January 1994
197 m awayRef 199450C410012
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 2023501387299 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.