A3052 crash in East Devon on 8 December 1985 at 01:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the A3052 in East Devon at 01:20 on Sunday 8 December 1985. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 1985
- Sunday, 01:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70602, longitude -3.35169, 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
- 198550D212402
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 46 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 March 2016.
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 27 March 2016
46 m awayRef 201650KO2X001
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 29 July 1987
51 m awayRef 198750D211125
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 11 July 1984
51 m awayRef 198450D211156
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 23 December 1985
58 m awayRef 198550D212526
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 22 July 1996
58 m awayRef 199650D332194
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 9 March 2014
66 m awayRef 201450KO2X001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198550D212402 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 1985.