Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ1 on 22 December 2018 at 01:00 involving a Fiat Doblo
A Fiat Doblo crashed on an unclassified road in Torbay at 01:00 on Saturday 22 December 2018. A 41-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2018
- Saturday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Doblo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.47783, longitude -3.52034, in the TQ1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Torquay. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Marychurch, Torbay, TQ1 3PR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500807522
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 38 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 1995.
Slight
Renault 11 crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 3 March 1995
38 m awayRef 199550F310389
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 3 January 1987
45 m awayRef 198750F310012
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 13 August 2002
56 m awayRef 200250F315071
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 9 April 1986
57 m awayRef 198650F310456
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 25 August 1994
70 m awayRef 199450F311969
Serious
Fiat Panda crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 22 September 1994
73 m awayRef 199450F312191
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Doblo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Doblo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2018500807522 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.