A30 crash in East Devon on 2 November 1990 at 19:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A30 in East Devon at 19:30 on Friday 2 November 1990. The 31-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra and a 20-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Nov 1990
- Friday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and lorry
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81532, longitude -3.16533, in the EX14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199050D352161
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- 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
- 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 September 1992.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A30 in East Devon, 4 September 1992
At the same spotRef 199250D351479
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A30 in East Devon, 10 September 1995
10 m awayRef 199550D351920
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A30 in East Devon, 23 December 2003
32 m awayRef 200350D35R729
Serious
Toyota Celica crash on the A30 in East Devon, 11 May 1999
71 m awayRef 199950D352519
Slight
Mazda CX-5 crash on the A30 in East Devon, 3 December 2025
72 m awayRef 2025501714041
Slight
Volvo crash on the A30 in East Devon, 23 May 2012
88 m awayRef 201250KH2D002
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 199050D352161 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.