Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ4 on 3 February 2016 at 10:48 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torbay at 10:48 on Wednesday 3 February 2016. A 79-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 3 Feb 2016
- Wednesday, 10:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.43161, longitude -3.55766, in the TQ4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500045399
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 35 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 1992.
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 14 July 1992
35 m awayRef 199250F211119
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 2 November 2024
40 m awayRef 2024501511543
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 4 December 2023
41 m awayRef 2023501383415
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 20 April 1980
42 m awayRef 198050K710453
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 15 February 2008
50 m awayRef 200850F31B604
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 24 March 2006
52 m awayRef 200650F21E114
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 79, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 2016500045399 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 2016.