A38 crash in Teignbridge on 4 December 2005 at 18:30 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on the A38 in Teignbridge at 18:30 on Sunday 4 December 2005. The 39-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 306 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2005
- Sunday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.52126, longitude -3.74188, in the TQ13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashburton & Buckfastleigh, Teignbridge, TQ13 7AJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550F45P895
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2013.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 19 December 2013
9 m awayRef 201350JA2C020
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 30 May 2005
10 m awayRef 200550F45G367
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 4 February 2004
14 m awayRef 200450F45B558
Slight
Daewoo Lanos crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 7 May 2005
14 m awayRef 200550F45F670
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 4 October 1982
14 m awayRef 198250G850933
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 1 October 1987
20 m awayRef 198750F411872
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 306)
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 200550F45P895 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 2005.