Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ2 on 3 September 1985 at 20:25 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Torbay at 20:25 on Tuesday 3 September 1985. The 18-year-old male driver 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
- 3 Sep 1985
- Tuesday, 20:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.47332, longitude -3.55657, 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
- 198550F311788
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 2023.
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 8 October 2023
14 m awayRef 2023501360886
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 21 March 2004
32 m awayRef 200450F31D638
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 1 October 1986
45 m awayRef 198650F311606
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 15 July 2010
85 m awayRef 201050FT2K011
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 23 April 2004
98 m awayRef 200450F31F176
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 24 July 1985
100 m awayRef 198550F311366
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198550F311788 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 1985.