A379 crash in Teignbridge on 24 September 2025 at 16:50 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
A Ford Transit Connect van hit a pedestrian on the A379 in Teignbridge at 16:50 on Wednesday 24 September 2025. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 2025
- Wednesday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit Connect
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.54772, longitude -3.49417, in the TQ14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Teignmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Teignmouth Central, Teignbridge, TQ14 9HP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501646181
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 379
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 April 2023.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 4 April 2023
12 m awayRef 2023501294134
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 17 May 1981
19 m awayRef 198150K860639
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 24 June 2000
21 m awayRef 200050F423132
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 7 August 2009
26 m awayRef 200950JG3N015
Serious
Yamaha Ybr crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 17 August 2021
26 m awayRef 2021501084613
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 26 August 2025
29 m awayRef 2025501639343
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 2 (Ford Transit Connect)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2025501646181 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 2025.