A379 crash in Teignbridge on 8 February 2004 at 20:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on the A379 in Teignbridge at 20:10 on Sunday 8 February 2004. A 44-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Feb 2004
- Sunday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.68908, longitude -3.50372, in the EX6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kenn Valley, Teignbridge, EX2 0AZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200450F43B673
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 379
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Exeter, 5 June 2006
At the same spotRef 200650D21G452
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Exeter, 5 August 1989
30 m awayRef 198950D211266
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 11 November 2024
38 m awayRef 2024501516587
Slight
MG MGF crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 3 June 2017
39 m awayRef 2017500192382
Slight
Peugeot 505 crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 24 August 1999
41 m awayRef 199950D214929
Serious
Yamaha XT 600 crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 15 November 2010
45 m awayRef 201050JC4V022
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 200450F43B673 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 2004.