A3022 crash in Torbay on 21 December 2014 at 19:59 involving an Audi
Four vehicles, including an Audi and a Ford Fiesta, were involved in a crash on the A3022 in Torbay at 19:59 on Sunday 21 December 2014. A female passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2014
- Sunday, 19:59
- Vehicles
- 4
- Audi and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.48002, longitude -3.54981, in the TQ2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tormohun, Torbay, TQ2 7NT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450FT2I046
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3022
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 2019.
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 19 June 2019
1 m awayRef 2019500855532
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A380 in Torbay, 27 March 1986
2 m awayRef 198650F310365
Slight
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 8 April 2003
2 m awayRef 200350F31C753
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 25 June 2019
5 m awayRef 2019500860028
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 5 August 1998
8 m awayRef 199850F314499
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 4 October 2018
8 m awayRef 2018500800875
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Audi
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 3: Jaguar X Type
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 4: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 201450FT2I046 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.