A3022 crash in Torbay on 28 September 2005 at 15:15 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Honda ST1100 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A3022 in Torbay at 15:15 on Wednesday 28 September 2005. The 59-year-old male rider of the Honda ST1100 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Sep 2005
- Wednesday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Honda ST1100
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.39769, longitude -3.55752, in the TQ5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brixham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Churston with Galmpton, Torbay, TQ5 0LB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550F27M467
- 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
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 July 2021.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 1 July 2021
13 m awayRef 2021501102471
Slight
Bus crash on the A379 in Torbay, 14 May 1985
14 m awayRef 198550F270830
Slight
Renault 11 crash on the A379 in Torbay, 31 August 1994
14 m awayRef 199450F212025
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 4 July 1998
20 m awayRef 199850F213717
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 5 December 2013
25 m awayRef 201350FB2A019
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Torbay, 12 May 1989
32 m awayRef 198950F270892
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Honda ST1100
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,084 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 59, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda ST1100)
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 200550F27M467 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 2005.