B3344 crash in Teignbridge on 14 December 2021 at 15:25 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A DAF Trucks lorry and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the B3344 in Teignbridge at 15:25 on Tuesday 14 December 2021. The 65-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2021
- Tuesday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.59751, longitude -3.60927, in the TQ13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chudleigh, Teignbridge, TQ13 0FB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021501133942
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3344
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3344 in Teignbridge, 18 June 1984
1 m awayRef 198450F441061
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3344 in Teignbridge, 27 July 1999
9 m awayRef 199950F444278
Serious
Car crash on the B3344 in Teignbridge, 21 October 1986
28 m awayRef 198650F441763
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B3344 in Teignbridge, 1 February 1997
28 m awayRef 199750F440186
Fatal
Car crash on the B3344 in Teignbridge, 6 June 1988
80 m awayRef 198850F441020
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3344 in Teignbridge, 15 March 1987
85 m awayRef 198750F440402
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2021501133942 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 2021.