Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ1 on 26 September 2015 at 13:00 involving a Fiat Ducato van
A Fiat Ducato van and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torbay at 13:00 on Saturday 26 September 2015. The 23-year-old female driver of the Fiat Punto 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
- 26 Sep 2015
- Saturday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Ducato and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.48495, longitude -3.53297, in the TQ1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Torquay. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barton with Watcombe, Torbay, TQ2 8ES area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550FT2B024
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 1986.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A379 in Torbay, 12 May 1986
8 m awayRef 198650F310624
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A379 in Torbay, 28 August 1990
8 m awayRef 199050F311623
Slight
Derbi GPR 50 crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 4 April 2001
8 m awayRef 200150F312039
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 2 January 2006
8 m awayRef 200650F31A241
Slight
Van crash on the A379 in Torbay, 22 October 1987
8 m awayRef 198750F312012
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Torbay, 18 March 2008
8 m awayRef 200850F31C427
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Ducato
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
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 201550FT2B024 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.