Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ1 on 5 March 2013 at 16:13 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torbay at 16:13 on Tuesday 5 March 2013. A 46-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 2013
- Tuesday, 16:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.4692, longitude -3.52761, 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
- 201350FT2C003
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2000.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 4 July 2000
11 m awayRef 200050F313348
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 28 October 1983
18 m awayRef 198350F312247
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 29 January 1979
18 m awayRef 197950K700109
Slight
Bus crash on the B3200 in Torbay, 7 November 1979
18 m awayRef 197950K701648
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 29 December 1998
18 m awayRef 199850F317946
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 22 March 1993
24 m awayRef 199350F310583
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 46, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 201350FT2C003 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.