Serious unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ1 on 3 May 2009 at 11:40 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Torbay at 11:40 on Sunday 3 May 2009. The 28-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 May 2009
- Sunday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.4716, longitude -3.53909, 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, TQ2 5RS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200950FT2J024
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 2011.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 13 March 2011
At the same spotRef 201150FT2I015
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 25 March 2001
At the same spotRef 200150F311824
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A379 in Torbay, 22 August 2003
10 m awayRef 200350F31O495
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A379 in Torbay, 15 October 2005
10 m awayRef 200550F31N313
Slight
Austin Mini crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 20 May 1999
10 m awayRef 199950F312785
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Torbay, 5 February 1981
10 m awayRef 198150K700156
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 200950FT2J024 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.