Serious A381 crash in Teignbridge on 14 December 2007 at 11:35 involving an LDV 400 Series van
An LDV 400 Series van and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A381 in Teignbridge at 11:35 on Friday 14 December 2007. The 29-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Dec 2007
- Friday, 11:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- LDV 400 Series and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.54861, longitude -3.54385, in the TQ14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bishopsteignton, Teignbridge, TQ14 9PR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750F42P420
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 28 January 1982
45 m awayRef 198250K860116
Slight
Car crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 29 March 1979
89 m awayRef 197950K830359
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 24 February 1985
117 m awayRef 198550F420295
Slight
Car crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 1 April 1982
122 m awayRef 198250K860409
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 8 December 2004
127 m awayRef 200450F42R495
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 6 January 2008
135 m awayRef 200850F42A175
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: LDV 400 Series
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200750F42P420 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.