A3022 crash in Torbay on 28 September 2007 at 18:45 involving a Seat Ibiza
Two cars and a Seat Ibiza were involved in a crash on the A3022 in Torbay at 18:45 on Friday 28 September 2007. The male driver of vehicle 1 and the 22-year-old male driver of the Seat Ibiza were 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
- 28 Sep 2007
- Friday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Seat Ibiza and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.44503, longitude -3.56189, in the TQ3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Preston, Torbay, TQ3 2EY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750F21M458
- 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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 1991.
Slight
Austin crash on the A379 in Torbay, 5 June 1991
10 m awayRef 199150F210895
Serious
Car crash on the A379 in Torbay, 28 August 1985
10 m awayRef 198550F211668
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 30 April 1995
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Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 10 July 2025
17 m awayRef 2025501614359
Slight
Yamaha YN 50 Neos crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 17 March 2008
22 m awayRef 200850F21C408
Serious
Citroen DS3 crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 8 October 2021
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,675 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Ibiza)
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 200750F21M458 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 2007.