A380 crash in Teignbridge on 30 September 2020 at 12:15 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5 crashed on the A380 in Teignbridge at 12:15 on Wednesday 30 September 2020. The 62-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 2020
- Wednesday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda MX-5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.56336, longitude -3.59615, in the TQ12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kingsteignton West, Teignbridge, TQ12 3NT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020500999636
- 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
- 60 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 serious injury crash on 24 February 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the A380 in Teignbridge, 24 February 1985
3 m awayRef 198550F410274
Slight
Car crash on the A380 in Teignbridge, 24 June 1987
12 m awayRef 198750F411306
Slight
Car crash on the A380 in Teignbridge, 22 May 1989
22 m awayRef 198950F410950
Slight
Car crash on the A380 in Teignbridge, 15 December 1994
22 m awayRef 199450F412824
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A380 in Teignbridge, 18 July 2020
31 m awayRef 2020500973992
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A380 in Teignbridge, 10 August 2015
31 m awayRef 201550JN2K008
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda MX-5)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2020500999636 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 2020.