A38 crash in Teignbridge on 10 August 2010 at 16:06 involving a Volvo van
A Volvo van and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A38 in Teignbridge at 16:06 on Tuesday 10 August 2010. The 17-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo and a 17-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Polo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2010
- Tuesday, 16:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.48757, longitude -3.76954, in the TQ11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashburton & Buckfastleigh, Teignbridge, TQ11 0DY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201050JA2C018
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3380
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2003.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B3380 in Teignbridge, 17 December 2003
10 m awayRef 200350F51R492
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 2 December 2007
10 m awayRef 200750F45P005
Slight
Isuzu D-Max crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 10 May 2025
14 m awayRef 2025501588464
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 21 December 1999
14 m awayRef 199950F457441
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 21 May 2019
15 m awayRef 2019500847426
Slight
BMW M4 crash on the A384 in Teignbridge, 16 March 2018
19 m awayRef 2018500281151
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 201050JA2C018 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 2010.