A385 crash in Torbay on 22 October 2014 at 14:40 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Peugeot 307 were involved in a crash on the A385 in Torbay at 14:40 on Wednesday 22 October 2014. A 26-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Micra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Oct 2014
- Wednesday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.42903, longitude -3.58379, in the TQ4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clifton with Maidenway, Torbay, TQ3 3TY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450FP2B032
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 385
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 1998.
Slight
Triumph TR7 crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 22 January 1998
8 m awayRef 199850F210423
Slight
Car crash on the A385 in Torbay, 18 July 1989
14 m awayRef 198950F211352
Slight
Mini One crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 12 June 2015
16 m awayRef 201550FP2B007
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A385 in Torbay, 1 August 2007
17 m awayRef 200750F21J330
Slight
Mazda 6 crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 5 December 2017
19 m awayRef 2017500248560
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 20 August 2011
21 m awayRef 201150FP2B039
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 201450FP2B032 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.