B3199 crash in Torbay on 18 April 2012 at 07:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Ford Puma were involved in a crash on the B3199 in Torbay at 07:10 on Wednesday 18 April 2012. The 33-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Apr 2012
- Wednesday, 07:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Ford Puma
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.48426, longitude -3.54531, in the TQ2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Torquay. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tormohun, Torbay, TQ2 7NT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250FT2I012
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3199
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 June 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B3199 in Torbay, 28 June 2012
12 m awayRef 201250FT2M014
Slight
Car crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 12 January 1982
12 m awayRef 198250K700043
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B3199 in Torbay, 24 May 1996
18 m awayRef 199650F310972
Slight
Renault Espace crash on the B3199 in Torbay, 30 September 2008
19 m awayRef 200850FT2I023
Slight
Kawasaki crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 21 September 2010
19 m awayRef 201050FT2M024
Serious
Car crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 27 August 1980
19 m awayRef 198050K701184
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Puma
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 201250FT2I012 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.