B3236 crash in Torridge on 1 October 2025 at 10:13 involving a Ford Puma
A Ford Puma and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the B3236 in Torridge at 10:13 on Wednesday 1 October 2025. A 33-year-old male passenger in the Renault Clio was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 2025
- Wednesday, 10:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Puma and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03486, longitude -4.23608, in the EX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Westward Ho!. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westward Ho!, Torridge, EX39 1HS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501661615
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3236
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 January 2016.
Serious
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 24 January 2016
36 m awayRef 201650CD3H002
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3236 in Torridge, 23 August 2017
38 m awayRef 2017500270428
Slight
Ford C-Max crash on the B3236 in Torridge, 24 May 2009
47 m awayRef 200950CD3H002
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B3236 in Torridge, 15 April 1992
48 m awayRef 199250C410318
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 7 December 2016
53 m awayRef 2016500148706
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 10 May 1999
56 m awayRef 199950C412562
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Puma
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 89 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025501661615 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 2025.