Unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ2 on 31 May 2025 at 17:50 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series hit three pedestrians on an unclassified road in Torbay at 17:50 on Saturday 31 May 2025. A 42-year-old female pedestrian, a 32-year-old female pedestrian and a 55-year-old female pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 May 2025
- Saturday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.465, longitude -3.52721, in the TQ2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Torquay. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tormohun, Torbay, TQ1 1TY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501596995
- 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 control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 March 1981.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A379 in Torbay, 22 March 1981
4 m awayRef 198150K700353
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A379 in Torbay, 25 June 1981
4 m awayRef 198150K700837
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Torbay, 5 December 1981
6 m awayRef 198150K701694
Serious
Van crash on the A379 in Torbay, 7 September 1989
11 m awayRef 198950F311782
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A379 in Torbay, 8 November 1980
11 m awayRef 198050K701557
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 20 August 1979
12 m awayRef 197950K701266
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 42, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 3: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 55, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2025501596995 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.