A381 crash in Teignbridge on 29 March 1979 at 22:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A381 in Teignbridge at 22:40 on Thursday 29 March 1979. The 19-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Mar 1979
- Thursday, 22:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.54833, longitude -3.54266, in the TQ14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197950K830359
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 381
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 8 December 2004
51 m awayRef 200450F42R495
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 6 January 2008
54 m awayRef 200850F42A175
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 4 July 2006
73 m awayRef 200650F42H997
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 3 October 2016
74 m awayRef 2016500116391
Serious
LDV 400 Series crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 14 December 2007
89 m awayRef 200750F42P420
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 27 June 2015
94 m awayRef 201550JG3J010
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 197950K830359 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Teignbridge road accident statistics for 1979.