A3052 crash in East Devon on 21 September 1990 at 13:45 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova crashed on the A3052 in East Devon at 13:45 on Friday 21 September 1990. The 84-year-old male driver and a 76-year-old female passenger were 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
- 21 Sep 1990
- Friday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70919, longitude -3.44738, 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
- 199050D331808
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 10 February 1989.
Serious
Lorry crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 10 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198950D210223
Fatal
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 9 December 1987
At the same spotRef 198750D212031
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 3 July 1994
14 m awayRef 199450D211615
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 12 July 1985
20 m awayRef 198550D211260
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 5 July 1986
22 m awayRef 198650D211217
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 8 May 2017
30 m awayRef 2017500186751
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 84, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 199050D331808 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 1990.