Serious A380 crash in Teignbridge on 29 January 2016 at 09:09 involving a Ford C-Max
A Ford C-Max crashed on the A380 in Teignbridge at 09:09 on Friday 29 January 2016. The 44-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Jan 2016
- Friday, 09:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford C-Max
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.64972, longitude -3.54462, in the EX6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kenn Valley, Teignbridge, EX6 7XA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201650JC4U003
- 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
- 380
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 December 1990.
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A380 in Teignbridge, 6 December 1990
17 m awayRef 199050D212424
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A380 in Exeter, 15 November 1990
17 m awayRef 199050D212358
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A380 in Teignbridge, 13 May 2008
44 m awayRef 200850JC4U007
Slight
Car crash on the A380 in Teignbridge, 12 November 1989
47 m awayRef 198950D211984
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 30 April 2004
92 m awayRef 200450F41F760
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A380 in Teignbridge, 13 November 2003
92 m awayRef 200350F43N542
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford C-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford C-Max)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least 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 201650JC4U003 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.