Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ2 on 10 September 2018 at 12:21 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torbay at 12:21 on Monday 10 September 2018. An 87-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Sep 2018
- Monday, 12:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.49611, longitude -3.53101, in the TQ2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Torquay.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500800119
- 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
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 January 2005.
Slight
Toyota crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 4 January 2005
22 m awayRef 200550F31A059
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 29 September 1992
29 m awayRef 199250F311673
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 12 April 1982
52 m awayRef 198250K700476
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 2 January 1987
56 m awayRef 198750F310016
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 7 March 2008
65 m awayRef 200850F31C231
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 12 July 1998
78 m awayRef 199850F313900
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,992 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 87, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018500800119 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 2018.