Serious A382 crash in Teignbridge on 3 November 1985 at 22:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A382 in Teignbridge at 22:10 on Sunday 3 November 1985. The 23-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Nov 1985
- Sunday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.66559, longitude -3.78338, in the TQ13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550F442166
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 382
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 June 2003.
Serious
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on the A382 in Teignbridge, 28 June 2003
10 m awayRef 200350F44H678
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A382 in Teignbridge, 5 May 2007
32 m awayRef 200750F44E797
Slight
Nissan 350 crash on the A382 in Teignbridge, 4 October 2022
40 m awayRef 2022501226486
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A382 in Teignbridge, 18 October 2016
42 m awayRef 2016500123723
Slight
Bus crash on the A382 in Teignbridge, 10 April 1980
60 m awayRef 198050J880334
Serious
Minibus crash on the A382 in Teignbridge, 6 August 1982
60 m awayRef 198250K831167
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 23, 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 198550F442166 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.