A3052 crash in East Devon on 1 February 1983 at 13:25 involving a van
Two vans were involved in a crash on the A3052 in East Devon at 13:25 on Tuesday 1 February 1983. The 49-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Feb 1983
- Tuesday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70578, longitude -3.38043, 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
- 198350D210197
- 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
- Daylight
- 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 4 March 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 4 March 1999
At the same spotRef 199950D211217
Slight
Triumph crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 24 April 1995
10 m awayRef 199550D210926
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
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3052 in Exeter, 5 September 2004
10 m awayRef 200450D21M437
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 19 September 2012
11 m awayRef 201250KE2H003
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)
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 198350D210197 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 1983.