Serious unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ4 on 22 June 2013 at 16:00 involving a Ford Escort
Two cars and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torbay at 16:00 on Saturday 22 June 2013. A 9-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Jun 2013
- Saturday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Escort and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.42553, longitude -3.57375, in the TQ4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Goodrington with Roselands, Torbay, TQ4 6NX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201350FP2D013
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 2017.
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 17 January 2017
14 m awayRef 2017500148711
Slight
Honda VFR750F crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 8 May 1994
22 m awayRef 199450F211079
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 27 March 1981
29 m awayRef 198150K710403
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 29 August 1987
30 m awayRef 198750F211591
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 30 December 2002
38 m awayRef 200250F218463
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 14 October 2022
54 m awayRef 2022501231744
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 201350FP2D013 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 2013.