A379 crash in Teignbridge on 3 May 2024 at 09:00 involving a Honda Jazz
A Honda Jazz hit a pedestrian on the A379 in Teignbridge at 09:00 on Friday 3 May 2024. A 13-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 3 May 2024
- Friday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Jazz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.58317, longitude -3.46197, in the EX7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dawlish. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dawlish South West, Teignbridge, EX7 9PB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024501439158
- 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
- 379
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 29 June 1989
11 m awayRef 198950F431188
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 9 January 2017
12 m awayRef 2017500148206
Serious
Car crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 5 February 2013
13 m awayRef 201350JG2H004
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 31 July 1983
19 m awayRef 198350F431465
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 13 April 1998
19 m awayRef 199850F432069
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 13 July 2003
30 m awayRef 200350F43I083
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda Jazz)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024501439158 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 2024.