A38 crash in Teignbridge on 10 January 2012 at 07:32 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A38 in Teignbridge at 07:32 on Tuesday 10 January 2012. The 50-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jan 2012
- Tuesday, 07:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.524, longitude -3.73749, in the TQ13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250JA2C001
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 1994.
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the B3352 in Teignbridge, 1 January 1994
18 m awayRef 199450F450007
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 11 September 2025
24 m awayRef 2025501640444
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 16 February 2001
35 m awayRef 200150F451045
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 28 November 1985
39 m awayRef 198550F452375
Slight
Lorry crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 5 March 1986
39 m awayRef 198650F450274
Slight
Scania crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 21 February 2001
44 m awayRef 200150F451181
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 201250JA2C001 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 2012.