Serious unclassified road crash in Teignbridge TQ12 on 20 August 1997 at 11:10 involving a Fiat Uno
A Fiat Uno crashed on an unclassified road in Teignbridge at 11:10 on Wednesday 20 August 1997. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Aug 1997
- Wednesday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Uno
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.55038, longitude -3.57774, in the TQ12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingsteignton.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199750F411912
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Serious
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Slight
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Slight
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Uno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 903 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Uno)
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 199750F411912 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 1997.