A379 crash in Torbay on 15 March 2006 at 08:24 involving a Vauxhall Astra
Four vehicles, including a Vauxhall Astra and a Rover 200 Series, were involved in a crash on the A379 in Torbay at 08:24 on Wednesday 15 March 2006. The 45-year-old male driver of the car 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
- 15 Mar 2006
- Wednesday, 08:24
- Vehicles
- 4
- Vauxhall Astra and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.45359, longitude -3.54752, in the TQ2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cockington with Chelston, Torbay, TQ2 6TW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200650F31D054
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 379
- 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
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 November 2010.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 13 November 2010
At the same spotRef 201050FT2L020
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 14 July 2008
10 m awayRef 200850FT2L009
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 27 February 1997
10 m awayRef 199750F210398
Slight
Bus crash on the A379 in Torbay, 6 August 1998
22 m awayRef 199850F314497
Slight
Mitsubishi Lancer crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 9 December 2007
22 m awayRef 200750F31P159
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Torbay, 6 July 1980
22 m awayRef 198050K700798
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 4: Mitsubishi Space Wagon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
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 200650F31D054 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 2006.