Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ5 on 23 July 1992 at 11:15 involving a Ford Orion
A car and a Ford Orion were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torbay at 11:15 on Thursday 23 July 1992. A 36-year-old female passenger in the Ford Orion and an 11-year-old female passenger in the car were 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
- 23 Jul 1992
- Thursday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.39593, longitude -3.51238, in the TQ5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brixham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199250F271202
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Orion)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 11, 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 199250F271202 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 1992.