C road crash in Torbay TQ2 on 8 February 1994 at 10:10 involving a Ford Orion
A car and a Ford Orion were involved in a crash on a C road in Torbay at 10:10 on Tuesday 8 February 1994. The 27-year-old male driver of the Ford Orion was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Feb 1994
- Tuesday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.46662, longitude -3.5331, in the TQ2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Torquay.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199450F310302
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 November 1979.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A379 in Torbay, 8 November 1979
10 m awayRef 197950K701672
Slight
Datsun Cherry crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 15 October 1990
10 m awayRef 199050F311910
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 29 August 1998
20 m awayRef 199850F315133
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 9 March 2002
22 m awayRef 200250F311368
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 30 October 1990
28 m awayRef 199050F312053
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Torbay, 28 September 1995
28 m awayRef 199550F311886
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Orion)
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 199450F310302 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 1994.