Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ5 on 18 October 2014 at 11:55 involving a Mazda 626
A Mazda 626 and a Honda FR-V were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torbay at 11:55 on Saturday 18 October 2014. The 47-year-old male driver of the Honda FR-V was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 2014
- Saturday, 11:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 626 and Honda FR-V
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.40112, longitude -3.5614, in the TQ5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brixham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Churston with Galmpton, Torbay, TQ5 0LB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450FB2A022
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 August 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 1 August 2009
11 m awayRef 200950FB2A021
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torbay, 1 October 1981
35 m awayRef 198150K721424
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Torbay, 16 October 1984
70 m awayRef 198450F272133
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Torbay, 20 July 1981
80 m awayRef 198150K710954
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 20 June 2010
127 m awayRef 201050FP2G013
Serious
Car crash on the A379 in Torbay, 2 September 1982
127 m awayRef 198250K711324
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 626
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Honda FR-V
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,204 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda FR-V)
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 201450FB2A022 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 2014.