Unclassified road crash in Teignbridge TQ14 on 26 September 2015 at 01:08 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza, a taxi and a Volvo S60 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge at 01:08 on Saturday 26 September 2015. The 19-year-old male driver of the Seat Ibiza and the 59-year-old male driver of the taxi were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 2015
- Saturday, 01:08
- Vehicles
- 3
- Seat Ibiza and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.55142, longitude -3.51398, in the TQ14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Teignmouth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550JG3M007
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 2025.
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 9 December 2025
11 m awayRef 2025501682250
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 14 March 1979
39 m awayRef 197950K860403
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 25 March 1987
65 m awayRef 198750F420468
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 26 February 2016
72 m awayRef 2016500051758
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 2 February 2013
72 m awayRef 201350JG3M001
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 31 January 1984
87 m awayRef 198450F420169
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Volvo S60
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)
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 201550JG3M007 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.