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Serious A379 crash in Torbay on 2 May 1981 at 11:17 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A379 in Torbay at 11:17 on Saturday 2 May 1981. An 81-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
2 May 1981
Saturday, 11:17
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.43765, longitude -3.56779, in the TQ3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton.

Map of where the crash happened in Torbay

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198150K710572
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
Crossroads
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
C

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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2023.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    50 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 81, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 198150K710572 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.