Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ1 on 21 August 2014 at 10:45 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torbay at 10:45 on Thursday 21 August 2014. The 43-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Aug 2014
- Thursday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.48187, longitude -3.52265, in the TQ1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Torquay. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Marychurch, Torbay, TQ1 3PR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450FT2B022
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 1999.
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Kawasaki EX500 crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 9 January 1999
2 m awayRef 199950F310087
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2 m awayRef 201350FT2B024
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Ford Fiesta crash on the A379 in Torbay, 8 March 2021
4 m awayRef 2021501029405
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Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 12 September 2019
9 m awayRef 2019500886671
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Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A379 in Torbay, 11 November 2014
10 m awayRef 201450FT2B028
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 29 July 2017
11 m awayRef 2017500208949
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,895 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 201450FT2B022 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.