A379 crash in Teignbridge on 22 December 1985 at 21:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A379 in Teignbridge at 21:30 on Sunday 22 December 1985. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1985
- Sunday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.64807, longitude -3.48058, 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
- 198550F432548
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 April 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 22 April 1985
61 m awayRef 198550F430666
Serious
Car crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 8 August 1984
64 m awayRef 198450F431519
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 23 February 1989
72 m awayRef 198950F430296
Serious
Yamaha MT09 crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 3 March 2015
75 m awayRef 201550JG2E002
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 6 March 1992
80 m awayRef 199250F430337
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 11 October 2016
90 m awayRef 2016500118766
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, 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 198550F432548 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 1985.