A379 crash in Torbay on 15 April 1981 at 18:50 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the A379 in Torbay at 18:50 on Wednesday 15 April 1981. The 20-year-old female driver of vehicle 3 and a 20-year-old female passenger in vehicle 3 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 1981
- Wednesday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.46697, longitude -3.53367, in the TQ2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Torquay.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150K700496
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 379
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 2002.
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 31 May 2002
At the same spotRef 200250F313307
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 25 November 2012
6 m awayRef 201250FT2J043
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Torbay, 8 October 1985
14 m awayRef 198550F311985
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 3 August 2015
15 m awayRef 201550FT2J026
Serious
Honda crash on the A379 in Torbay, 7 July 1992
22 m awayRef 199250F311079
Serious
Car crash on the A37 in Torbay, 7 November 1979
22 m awayRef 197950K701670
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198150K700496 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 1981.