Serious A379 crash in Teignbridge on 24 November 1981 at 12:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A379 in Teignbridge at 12:40 on Tuesday 24 November 1981. An 84-year-old male 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
- 24 Nov 1981
- Tuesday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.64051, longitude -3.47355, in the EX6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150K861638
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 379
- 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, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 September 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 10 September 2011
25 m awayRef 201150JG2B006
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A397 in Teignbridge, 10 August 2000
28 m awayRef 200050F424095
Serious
Car crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 1 March 1984
32 m awayRef 198450F430362
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 4 July 2013
32 m awayRef 201350JG2E008
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 11 December 1981
36 m awayRef 198150K861736
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 8 April 1997
36 m awayRef 199750F430680
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 84, 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 198150K861638 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.