B3203 crash in Torbay on 8 December 2004 at 12:44 involving a Volkswagen Sharan
A car and a Volkswagen Sharan were involved in a crash on the B3203 in Torbay at 12:44 on Wednesday 8 December 2004. A 32-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Sharan was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2004
- Wednesday, 12:44
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Sharan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.47575, longitude -3.57798, in the TQ2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cockington with Chelston, Torbay, TQ2 7JH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200450F31R441
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3203
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 10 January 2000
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Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 8 June 2000
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torbay, 1 September 1980
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Torbay, 24 September 1980
10 m awayRef 198050K701327
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torbay, 2 January 1986
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Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 7 July 2025
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,410 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Sharan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Sharan)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200450F31R441 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.