Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ4 on 22 May 2015 at 12:45 involving a Toyota Previa
A Toyota Previa and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torbay at 12:45 on Friday 22 May 2015. The 17-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus 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 May 2015
- Friday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Previa and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.40296, longitude -3.5582, in the TQ4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton. 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
- 201550FB2A008
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 April 1999.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 15 April 1999
40 m awayRef 199950F212123
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 6 August 1982
70 m awayRef 198250K711180
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 25 October 2013
78 m awayRef 201350FB2A016
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 22 May 1985
95 m awayRef 198550F210869
Serious
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 1 July 2025
154 m awayRef 2025501610841
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 10 September 2001
175 m awayRef 200150F275659
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Previa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,362 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 201550FB2A008 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 2015.