A3022 crash in Torbay on 2 May 2025 at 11:50 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Ford Tourneo Connect were involved in a crash on the A3022 in Torbay at 11:50 on Friday 2 May 2025. The 55-year-old female driver of the Ford Tourneo Connect was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2025
- Friday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Ford Tourneo Connect
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.39104, longitude -3.52514, in the TQ5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brixham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Furzeham with Summercombe, Torbay, TQ5 9JS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501590952
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3022
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2023.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 5 November 2023
8 m awayRef 2023501391383
Slight
Lorry crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 1 October 1981
9 m awayRef 198150K721392
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 23 November 2001
9 m awayRef 200150F277397
Slight
Car crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 12 October 1986
9 m awayRef 198650F271703
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 11 October 1991
9 m awayRef 199150F271762
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 24 July 2021
10 m awayRef 2021501082862
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Tourneo Connect
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North 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
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Tourneo Connect)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025501590952 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 2025.