A385 crash in Torbay on 3 July 2012 at 08:22 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A385 in Torbay at 08:22 on Tuesday 3 July 2012. The 54-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jul 2012
- Tuesday, 08:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.42863, longitude -3.5971, in the TQ4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Collaton St Mary. 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250FP2B024
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 385
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 2018.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 2 August 2018
6 m awayRef 2018500320854
Slight
Volkswagen Lupo crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 2 December 2014
7 m awayRef 201450FP2B036
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 21 August 2005
9 m awayRef 200550F21K655
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A385 in Torbay, 8 October 2007
9 m awayRef 200750F21L951
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 2 September 2008
9 m awayRef 200850FP2B023
Slight
Car crash on the A385 in Torbay, 14 July 1985
9 m awayRef 198550F211249
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 201250FP2B024 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 2012.