A38 crash in Teignbridge on 5 May 2011 at 02:42 involving a car
A car crashed on the A38 in Teignbridge at 02:42 on Thursday 5 May 2011. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 May 2011
- Thursday, 02:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.48068, longitude -3.77219, 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
- 201150JA2D002
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 January 2004.
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 19 January 2004
9 m awayRef 200450F42A732
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Teignbridge, 26 July 1993
36 m awayRef 199350F451747
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Teignbridge, 20 July 1995
44 m awayRef 199550F451349
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 10 March 2009
48 m awayRef 200950JA2D002
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 5 November 1993
54 m awayRef 199350F452770
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 8 December 1998
60 m awayRef 199850F457548
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201150JA2D002 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 2011.