Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ2 on 25 April 2008 at 17:41 involving a Mitsubishi Space Star
A Mitsubishi Space Star hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torbay at 17:41 on Friday 25 April 2008. A 23-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Apr 2008
- Friday, 17:41
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi Space Star
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.46791, longitude -3.53263, in the TQ2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Torquay. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tormohun, Torbay, TQ2 5RS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850FT2J008
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 1992.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 19 November 1992
14 m awayRef 199250F312002
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Torbay, 5 October 1993
14 m awayRef 199350F312480
Slight
Datsun Cherry crash on the A379 in Torbay, 12 July 1990
20 m awayRef 199050F311275
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 30 April 2005
22 m awayRef 200550F31F044
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 30 January 2010
28 m awayRef 201050FT2E002
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A379 in Torbay, 27 September 1980
32 m awayRef 198050K701365
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Space Star
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Space Star)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 200850FT2J008 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 2008.