Serious unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ4 on 18 March 2010 at 15:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A motorcycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torbay at 15:00 on Thursday 18 March 2010. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Mar 2010
- Thursday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.42811, longitude -3.58935, in the TQ4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clifton with Maidenway, Torbay, TQ3 3TY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201050FP2B006
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 1992.
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A385 in Torbay, 25 April 1992
14 m awayRef 199250F210620
Slight
Car crash on the A385 in Torbay, 1 July 1979
14 m awayRef 197950K710898
Slight
Bus crash on the A385 in Torbay, 1 October 1979
14 m awayRef 197950K711489
Serious
Car crash on the A385 in Torbay, 26 July 1979
14 m awayRef 197950K711030
Slight
Suzuki SJ crash on the A385 in Torbay, 18 March 1998
14 m awayRef 199850F211494
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A385 in Torbay, 18 May 1995
32 m awayRef 199550F210882
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- 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
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201050FP2B006 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.