A3052 crash in East Devon on 1 January 1982 at 16:33 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A3052 in East Devon at 16:33 on Friday 1 January 1982. An 11-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 and a 9-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 1982
- Friday, 16:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70569, longitude -3.38028, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250D430001
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3052
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 May 2010.
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 28 May 2010
At the same spotRef 201050KE2H002
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 19 September 2012
6 m awayRef 201250KE2H003
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3052 in Exeter, 5 September 2004
10 m awayRef 200450D21M437
Serious
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 20 July 2001
10 m awayRef 200150D214381
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 29 May 2001
10 m awayRef 200150D213200
Slight
Triumph crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 24 April 1995
10 m awayRef 199550D210926
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198250D430001 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 1982.