Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ1 on 4 July 2000 at 10:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torbay at 10:30 on Tuesday 4 July 2000. A 72-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jul 2000
- Tuesday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.46914, longitude -3.52774, in the TQ1 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
- 200050F313348
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,272 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 72, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200050F313348 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 2000.