Serious unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ3 on 17 May 2015 at 01:45 involving a Volvo V50
A Volvo V50 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torbay at 01:45 on Sunday 17 May 2015. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 May 2015
- Sunday, 01:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo V50
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.44264, longitude -3.5581, in the TQ3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Preston, Torbay, TQ3 2EY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550FP2A011
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 28 June 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 28 June 1999
1 m awayRef 199950F213644
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 26 June 2002
1 m awayRef 200250F213835
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3201 in Torbay, 29 November 2020
7 m awayRef 2020501006056
Slight
Car crash on the B3201 in Torbay, 11 August 2025
8 m awayRef 2025501627527
Slight
Car crash on the B3201 in Torbay, 20 October 1982
9 m awayRef 198250K711623
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3201 in Torbay, 27 October 1986
9 m awayRef 198650F211786
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V50
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo V50)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201550FP2A011 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.