A38 crash in Teignbridge on 4 May 1983 at 11:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A38 in Teignbridge at 11:30 on Wednesday 4 May 1983. The 24-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 1983
- Wednesday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.6458, longitude -3.55151, in the EX6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350D210776
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 16 January 1989
10 m awayRef 198950D210133
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 13 September 1986
10 m awayRef 198650D211687
Fatal
Car crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 18 May 1986
10 m awayRef 198650D210875
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 8 September 2002
22 m awayRef 200250D215724
Slight
Seat Toledo crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 5 December 2025
35 m awayRef 2025501679010
Slight
Porsche Cayenne crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 14 July 2023
44 m awayRef 2023501329471
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198350D210776 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 1983.