Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ2 on 5 August 1981 at 12:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torbay at 12:00 on Wednesday 5 August 1981. A 6-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 5 Aug 1981
- Wednesday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.47223, longitude -3.55724, in the TQ2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150K701051
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 24 July 1985
41 m awayRef 198550F311366
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 27 May 1979
61 m awayRef 197950K700664
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 26 July 1998
91 m awayRef 199850F314264
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 4 November 1991
117 m awayRef 199150F311915
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 26 April 1987
120 m awayRef 198750F310669
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 9 September 1983
120 m awayRef 198350F311843
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, 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 198150K701051 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.