C road crash in Teignbridge TQ13 on 21 January 1996 at 17:30 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra hit a pedestrian on a C road in Teignbridge at 17:30 on Sunday 21 January 1996. A 55-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 1996
- Sunday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.47941, longitude -3.71237, in the TQ13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199650F450129
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, lighting unknown
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 322 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 November 1986.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the South Hams, 28 November 1986
322 m awayRef 198650F512059
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 20 May 1998
431 m awayRef 199850F523014
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on a C road in the South Hams, 17 June 1993
510 m awayRef 199350F511400
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 27 April 1990
539 m awayRef 199050F510754
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Car crash on a C road in the South Hams, 5 June 1982
559 m awayRef 198250G510461
Slight
Volkswagen Santana crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 1 July 1996
766 m awayRef 199650F451236
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 55, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 199650F450129 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 1996.