A38 crash in Teignbridge on 22 October 2015 at 17:00 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the A38 in Teignbridge at 17:00 on Thursday 22 October 2015. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Oct 2015
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.58631, longitude -3.62098, 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
- 201550JC2B012
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 48 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 July 1981.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 12 July 1981
48 m awayRef 198150J880678
Slight
Lorry crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 19 August 1989
60 m awayRef 198950F441559
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 17 September 1991
60 m awayRef 199150F441695
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 18 June 1981
60 m awayRef 198150J880589
Fatal
Car crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 12 June 1981
60 m awayRef 198150J880573
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 30 June 2025
69 m awayRef 2025501609518
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 201550JC2B012 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 2015.