Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ5 on 26 January 2010 at 17:41 involving an Audi Q7
An Audi Q7 and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torbay at 17:41 on Tuesday 26 January 2010. The 46-year-old male driver of the car 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
- 26 Jan 2010
- Tuesday, 17:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi Q7 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.39577, longitude -3.51257, in the TQ5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brixham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Furzeham with Summercombe, Torbay, TQ5 9JS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201050FB2D001
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 2000.
Slight
Aprilia crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 18 July 2000
10 m awayRef 200050F273597
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 11 December 2016
12 m awayRef 2016500141410
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 23 July 1992
14 m awayRef 199250F271202
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 25 October 2025
16 m awayRef 2025501659367
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torbay, 30 July 1980
22 m awayRef 198050K720969
Serious
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 22 March 1994
22 m awayRef 199450F270731
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi Q7
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 201050FB2D001 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 2010.