C road crash in Torbay TQ2 on 20 October 1979 at 13:38 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Torbay at 13:38 on Saturday 20 October 1979. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 1979
- Saturday, 13:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.48808, longitude -3.54211, in the TQ2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197950K701569
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 2010.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 6 August 2010
20 m awayRef 201050FT2M018
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Torbay, 9 June 1995
22 m awayRef 199550F311034
Slight
Kia Pride crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 27 December 2005
40 m awayRef 200550F31Q762
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 29 December 1979
41 m awayRef 197950K701929
Slight
Austin Montego crash on a C road in Torbay, 25 May 1993
50 m awayRef 199350F311170
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 11 May 2003
51 m awayRef 200350F31H925
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 197950K701569 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torbay road accident statistics for 1979.