Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ4 on 25 April 2002 at 07:39 involving a Mercedes Sprinter
A Mercedes Sprinter and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torbay at 07:39 on Thursday 25 April 2002. The 31-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was 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
- 25 Apr 2002
- Thursday, 07:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Sprinter and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.43406, longitude -3.56871, in the TQ4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Roundham with Hyde, Torbay, TQ4 5AA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200250F212459
- 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
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A385 in Torbay, 29 July 1985
10 m awayRef 198550F211416
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A385 in Torbay, 10 July 1992
10 m awayRef 199250F211099
Slight
Triumph Acclaim crash on the A385 in Torbay, 24 May 1998
10 m awayRef 199850F212826
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 14 July 2011
14 m awayRef 201150FP2C022
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 9 January 2025
17 m awayRef 2025501540022
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A385 in Torbay, 29 November 1985
20 m awayRef 198550F212339
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,874 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 200250F212459 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 2002.