A379 crash in Teignbridge on 15 September 2012 at 08:30 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Skyjet SJ 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A379 in Teignbridge at 08:30 on Saturday 15 September 2012. The 31-year-old male rider of the Skyjet SJ 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 2012
- Saturday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Skyjet SJ 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.57262, longitude -3.4726, in the EX7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dawlish.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250JG2A005
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 379
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2013.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 21 March 2013
22 m awayRef 201350JG2A004
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 30 May 2017
56 m awayRef 2017500189190
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 10 March 2017
56 m awayRef 2017500166512
Serious
Car crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 4 May 1984
65 m awayRef 198450F430705
Fatal
Car crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 17 January 1987
68 m awayRef 198750F430075
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 23 May 2019
84 m awayRef 2019500847428
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Skyjet SJ 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Skyjet SJ 125)
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 201250JG2A005 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.