Serious A3052 crash in East Devon on 28 December 1986 at 00:35 involving a car
A car crashed on the A3052 in East Devon at 00:35 on Sunday 28 December 1986. The 26-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Dec 1986
- Sunday, 00:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69809, longitude -3.19669, in the EX10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198650D332432
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 29 December 1982
At the same spotRef 198250D332384
Serious
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 16 June 1983
20 m awayRef 198350D331051
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 28 November 1982
20 m awayRef 198250D332172
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 14 February 1994
20 m awayRef 199450D330392
Slight
Aprilia crash on the B3052 in East Devon, 3 December 2006
22 m awayRef 200650D33P301
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 27 May 2020
25 m awayRef 2020500954716
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 26, 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 198650D332432 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 1986.