A384 crash in Teignbridge on 8 December 1993 at 14:10 involving an All Wheel Drive lorry
An All Wheel Drive lorry, a Volkswagen Scirocco and a car were involved in a crash on the A384 in Teignbridge at 14:10 on Wednesday 8 December 1993. A 43-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Scirocco and the 33-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Scirocco were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 1993
- Wednesday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- All Wheel Drive and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.48754, longitude -3.76976, in the TQ11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199350F453078
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 384
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 1998.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 13 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199850F457565
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 26 August 1987
10 m awayRef 198750F451618
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 21 December 1999
22 m awayRef 199950F457441
Slight
Volvo crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 10 August 2010
22 m awayRef 201050JA2C018
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 2 December 2007
32 m awayRef 200750F45P005
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B3380 in Teignbridge, 17 December 2003
32 m awayRef 200350F51R492
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: All Wheel Drive
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Scirocco
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,588 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Scirocco)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Scirocco)
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 199350F453078 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 1993.