A3052 crash in East Devon on 3 December 1987 at 13:00 involving a van
A vehicle and a van were involved in a crash on the A3052 in East Devon at 13:00 on Thursday 3 December 1987. The 37-year-old male driver of the van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 1987
- Thursday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70635, longitude -3.18104, in the EX10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198750D342011
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 August 2001.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 4 August 2001
10 m awayRef 200150D344748
Serious
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 23 December 1981
71 m awayRef 198150L810991
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 16 October 2011
89 m awayRef 201150KN3F003
Serious
Suzuki AN 400 crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 11 June 2025
89 m awayRef 2025501601537
Serious
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 20 February 1982
100 m awayRef 198250D340281
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 6 December 2021
108 m awayRef 2021501130149
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, 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 198750D342011 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 1987.