C road crash in Torbay TQ3 on 10 December 1983 at 16:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Torbay at 16:35 on Saturday 10 December 1983. An 84-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 1983
- Saturday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.44489, longitude -3.5638, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350F212641
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 7 August 1985.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torbay, 7 August 1985
At the same spotRef 198550F211497
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Torbay, 19 October 1980
At the same spotRef 198050K711442
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torbay, 7 December 1985
At the same spotRef 198550F212427
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Torbay, 19 May 1993
10 m awayRef 199350F211122
Slight
Scooter crash on a C road in Torbay, 24 January 1990
30 m awayRef 199050F210114
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torbay, 2 January 1988
36 m awayRef 198850F210017
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 84, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 198350F212641 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 1983.