Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ1 on 24 December 2012 at 11:49 involving a Honda VFR800F motorcycle
A Honda VFR800F motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torbay at 11:49 on Monday 24 December 2012. A 51-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2012
- Monday, 11:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda VFR800F
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.46661, longitude -3.52964, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250FT2E021
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- Fine, 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 2009.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 17 September 2009
9 m awayRef 200950FT2E033
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Torbay, 24 August 1981
12 m awayRef 198150K701163
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Torbay, 24 May 1993
12 m awayRef 199350F311159
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Torbay, 29 March 1984
12 m awayRef 198450F310522
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Torbay, 23 July 1998
12 m awayRef 199850F314220
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on a C road in Torbay, 3 April 1996
14 m awayRef 199650F310616
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda VFR800F
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 51, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda VFR800F)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201250FT2E021 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.