Unclassified road crash in Teignbridge TQ12 on 24 March 2016 at 00:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in Teignbridge at 00:10 on Thursday 24 March 2016. The 21-year-old male driver and a 22-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Mar 2016
- Thursday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.54302, longitude -3.59714, in the TQ12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingsteignton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kingsteignton East, Teignbridge, TQ12 3RS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500065963
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 2021.
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A383 in Teignbridge, 4 May 2021
3 m awayRef 2021501049137
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 15 January 2019
12 m awayRef 2019500809593
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A383 in Teignbridge, 10 November 2022
14 m awayRef 2022501243621
Slight
Car crash on the B3193 in Teignbridge, 24 August 1987
20 m awayRef 198750F411570
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the B3195 in Teignbridge, 8 February 2004
32 m awayRef 200450F41B647
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 1 April 1998
32 m awayRef 199850F411754
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 2016500065963 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 2016.