A379 crash in Teignbridge on 30 August 1983 at 11:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A379 in Teignbridge at 11:00 on Tuesday 30 August 1983. A 54-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 1983
- Tuesday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.68291, longitude -3.49866, 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
- 198350D211589
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 16 January 1984
At the same spotRef 198450D210073
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 20 April 2022
59 m awayRef 2022501171162
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A379 in Exeter, 29 January 1980
80 m awayRef 198050J880101
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Teignbridge, 24 October 1988
102 m awayRef 198850D211752
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 18 May 2004
143 m awayRef 200450F41G461
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 21 January 2002
158 m awayRef 200250D210417
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 54, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198350D211589 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.