A38 crash in Teignbridge on 10 April 2013 at 15:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Saab 9-3 were involved in a crash on the A38 in Teignbridge at 15:00 on Wednesday 10 April 2013. The 49-year-old female driver of the Saab 9-3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet slip road with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Apr 2013
- Wednesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Saab 9-3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.59551, longitude -3.61397, in the TQ13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chudleigh, Teignbridge, TQ13 0FB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201350JC2B007
- 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
- Slip road
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3344
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 2019.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 23 August 2019
2 m awayRef 2019500876347
Fatal
Honda CB600F crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 8 July 2011
2 m awayRef 201150JC2B012
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 23 May 2013
4 m awayRef 201350JC2B009
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 23 July 2000
6 m awayRef 200050F443685
Slight
Skoda Kodiaq crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 26 May 2024
7 m awayRef 2024501450225
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 8 July 2025
10 m awayRef 2025501618647
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Saab 9-3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Saab 9-3)
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 201350JC2B007 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 2013.