Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ3 on 19 October 2012 at 08:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torbay at 08:40 on Friday 19 October 2012. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 2012
- Friday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.44072, longitude -3.56861, in the TQ3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Roundham with Hyde, Torbay, TQ4 5AA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250FP2H008
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 1998.
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the A379 in Torbay, 18 December 1998, ref 199850F217799
23 m awayRef 199850F217799
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 23 May 1998
23 m awayRef 199850F212899
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the A379 in Torbay, 18 December 1998, ref 199850F217701
23 m awayRef 199850F217701
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 4 November 1996
23 m awayRef 199650F212293
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 9 August 2003
43 m awayRef 200350F21K320
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 12 April 1994
61 m awayRef 199450F210880
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201250FP2H008 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.