Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ4 on 19 October 2015 at 16:19 involving a Toyota MR2
A Toyota MR2 and a Subaru Impreza were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torbay at 16:19 on Monday 19 October 2015. A 26-year-old male passenger in the Toyota MR2 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
- 19 Oct 2015
- Monday, 16:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota MR2 and Subaru Impreza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.41332, longitude -3.58855, in the TQ4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Collaton St Mary, Torbay, TQ4 7FE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550FP2B023
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 62 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 August 2007.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 11 August 2007
62 m awayRef 200750F21J490
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 22 May 2025
80 m awayRef 2025501594047
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 24 October 2025
80 m awayRef 2025501658569
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 22 February 2019
170 m awayRef 2019500822363
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 30 June 2017
171 m awayRef 2017500204471
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 26 September 2014
204 m awayRef 201450FP2B028
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota MR2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Subaru Impreza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota MR2)
- 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 201550FP2B023 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.