Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ1 on 3 August 2009 at 02:15 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torbay at 02:15 on Monday 3 August 2009. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2009
- Monday, 02:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.46549, longitude -3.52508, in the TQ1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Torquay. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tormohun, Torbay, TQ1 1TY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200950FT2C020
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 August 1982.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 27 August 1982
22 m awayRef 198250K701286
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 17 May 1994
36 m awayRef 199450F311158
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 24 March 1996
60 m awayRef 199650F310549
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 28 August 1997
81 m awayRef 199750F311882
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 7 March 1998
92 m awayRef 199850F311297
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 12 May 1979
92 m awayRef 197950K700588
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200950FT2C020 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 2009.