Serious unclassified road crash in Teignbridge TQ14 on 12 June 1981 at 15:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Teignbridge at 15:35 on Friday 12 June 1981. A 7-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jun 1981
- Friday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.5523, longitude -3.51456, in the TQ14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150K860772
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 2013.
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 18 March 2013
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 14 March 1979
100 m awayRef 197950K860403
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 26 September 2015
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Slight
Audi C crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 9 September 2001
108 m awayRef 200150F425862
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 25 March 1987
170 m awayRef 198750F420468
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198150K860772 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 1981.