A38 crash in Teignbridge on 6 May 2006 at 15:17 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the A38 in Teignbridge at 15:17 on Saturday 6 May 2006. The 18-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old female passenger were 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
- 6 May 2006
- Saturday, 15:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.59944, longitude -3.61547, in the TQ13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chudleigh, Teignbridge, TQ13 0FB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200650F44F240
- 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
- 38
- Road type
- Single 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 March 1993.
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 25 March 1993
10 m awayRef 199350F440656
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 29 April 1995
10 m awayRef 199550F440752
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A380 in Teignbridge, 21 December 1997
20 m awayRef 199750F442834
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 17 April 2000
22 m awayRef 200050F441848
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 4 August 1980
30 m awayRef 198050J880770
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 6 May 1980
30 m awayRef 198050J880407
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200650F44F240 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 2006.