A380 crash in Torbay on 5 March 2015 at 17:20 involving a Toyota Aygo
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 2015
- Thursday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Aygo and Toyota Hilux
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.43612, longitude -3.58809, in the TQ3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton. It is one of the crashes that make up the King's Ash, Torbay, TQ3 3UU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550FP2E003
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 380
- 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 1998.
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A380 in Torbay, 18 December 1998
5 m awayRef 199850F217675
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 6 March 2015
17 m awayRef 201550FP2E002
Serious
Kawasaki ZX750 crash on the A280 in Torbay, 8 August 1998
17 m awayRef 199850F214607
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A380 in Torbay, 12 December 2025
19 m awayRef 2025501682332
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A380 in Torbay, 1 January 2013
21 m awayRef 201350FP2B001
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A380 in Torbay, 16 December 2009
22 m awayRef 200950FP2B059
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Toyota Hilux
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Hilux)
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 201550FP2E003 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.