Serious A379 crash in Teignbridge on 16 February 2018 at 20:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A379 in Teignbridge at 20:00 on Friday 16 February 2018. The 38-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Feb 2018
- Friday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.68296, longitude -3.53241, in the EX2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kenn Valley, Teignbridge, EX2 8XZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500276045
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 379
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a fatal crash on 17 August 1989.
Fatal
Car crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 17 August 1989
16 m awayRef 198950D211363
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A379 in Exeter, 11 January 2003
19 m awayRef 200350D21B032
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 8 April 1983
27 m awayRef 198350D210607
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 10 January 2005
37 m awayRef 200550F44A540
Slight
Porsche Boxster crash on the A379 in Exeter, 1 November 2001
37 m awayRef 200150D216966
Serious
Car crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 20 November 1980
44 m awayRef 198050J881172
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 38, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018500276045 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 2018.