A38 crash in Teignbridge on 20 December 2015 at 02:15 involving an Audi A6
An Audi A6 crashed on the A38 in Teignbridge at 02:15 on Sunday 20 December 2015. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2015
- Sunday, 02:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.57112, longitude -3.64674, in the TQ12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Heathfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bovey, Teignbridge, TQ12 6TS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550JC3H037
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 January 2014.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 4 January 2014
10 m awayRef 201450JC3H002
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 3 February 1997
19 m awayRef 199750F440198
Slight
Scooter crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 1 August 1989
45 m awayRef 198950F411498
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 9 September 1986
84 m awayRef 198650F411478
Slight
Van crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 30 March 1995
84 m awayRef 199550F440592
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 13 June 2000
103 m awayRef 200050F412982
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A6
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
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A6)
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 201550JC3H037 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.