Serious A381 crash in Teignbridge on 5 March 2007 at 19:28 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a car were involved in a crash on the A381 in Teignbridge at 19:28 on Monday 5 March 2007. A 14-year-old female pedestrian hit by the Ford Mondeo was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Mar 2007
- Monday, 19:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.48961, longitude -3.62976, in the TQ12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750F41C365
- 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
- 381
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 December 1994.
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 22 December 1994
10 m awayRef 199450F412794
Serious
Austin Mini crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 16 November 1990
14 m awayRef 199050F412354
Slight
Lada Samara crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 3 January 1999
51 m awayRef 199950F410136
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 22 October 1990
71 m awayRef 199050F411967
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 19 September 1996
81 m awayRef 199650F411898
Serious
Van crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 14 November 1985
95 m awayRef 198550F412238
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200750F41C365 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 2007.