C road crash in Teignbridge TQ12 on 24 April 2001 at 11:15 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on a C road in Teignbridge at 11:15 on Tuesday 24 April 2001. A 48-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 2001
- Tuesday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.50502, longitude -3.54187, in the TQ12 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200150F312412
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 December 1999.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 31 December 1999
22 m awayRef 199950F317666
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Torbay, 20 January 1987
22 m awayRef 198750F310124
Slight
Renault 5 crash on a C road in Torbay, 30 June 1999
22 m awayRef 199950F313720
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in Torbay, 5 January 1991
41 m awayRef 199150F310018
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torbay, 10 May 1979
41 m awayRef 197950K700577
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 9 October 1997
41 m awayRef 199750F412207
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200150F312412 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 2001.