A30 crash in Teignbridge on 4 July 2023 at 20:30 involving a BMW X5
A BMW X5 crashed on the A30 in Teignbridge at 20:30 on Tuesday 4 July 2023. The 29-year-old male driver, a 32-year-old female passenger and a female passenger aged under 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jul 2023
- Tuesday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW X5
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72382, longitude -3.61543, in the EX4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023501325937
- 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
- 30
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 132 metres away, was a fatal crash on 3 June 1983.
Fatal
Car crash on the A30 in Teignbridge, 3 June 1983
132 m awayRef 198350D211014
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 25 July 2025
165 m awayRef 2025501620980
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Teignbridge, 18 March 2013
261 m awayRef 201350JC4O003
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A30 in Teignbridge, 7 February 2011
269 m awayRef 201150JC4O001
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A30 in Teignbridge, 24 July 1997
271 m awayRef 199750D212512
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Teignbridge, 12 March 1984
279 m awayRef 198450D210401
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW X5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X5)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X5)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged under 1, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X5)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2023501325937 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 2023.