A3022 crash in Torbay on 17 November 2004 at 11:15 involving a Mercedes bus
A Mercedes bus and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A3022 in Torbay at 11:15 on Wednesday 17 November 2004. The 63-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and a 27-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes bus 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
- 17 Nov 2004
- Wednesday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.42355, longitude -3.58751, in the TQ4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clifton with Maidenway, Torbay, TQ3 3TY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200450F21Q548
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3022
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 3022
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 1992.
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 19 October 1992
At the same spotRef 199250F211802
Slight
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 15 April 2010
At the same spotRef 201050FP2D004
Serious
Car crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 25 March 1986
At the same spotRef 198650F210368
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 24 April 2012
3 m awayRef 201250FP2D013
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 13 March 2021
4 m awayRef 2021501030662
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 16 August 2025
4 m awayRef 2025501629801
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,972 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 200450F21Q548 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 2004.