C road crash in Teignbridge TQ12 on 4 December 1983 at 02:30 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Teignbridge at 02:30 on Sunday 4 December 1983. The 22-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 1983
- Sunday, 02:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.50633, longitude -3.58938, in the TQ12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350F412483
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 1999.
Slight
MG Midget crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 10 January 1999
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Serious
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Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A380 in Teignbridge, 14 May 2022
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Teignbridge, 6 September 1986
98 m awayRef 198650F411461
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 1 February 2025
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Slight
MG Metro crash on a C road in Teignbridge, 25 March 1995
108 m awayRef 199550F410544
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, 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 198350F412483 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.