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Serious unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ5 on 28 August 1981 at 23:45 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in Torbay at 23:45 on Friday 28 August 1981. A 15-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and an 18-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
28 Aug 1981
Friday, 23:45
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.39529, longitude -3.54022, in the TQ5 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Torbay

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198150K721192
Council area
Torbay
Police force
Devon and Cornwall

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Fog or mist
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 1993.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear 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 198150K721192 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.