A30 crash in East Devon on 2 April 1992 at 21:20 involving a Jaguar XJ Series
A Jaguar XJ Series crashed on the A30 in East Devon at 21:20 on Thursday 2 April 1992. The 47-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 1992
- Thursday, 21:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Jaguar XJ Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73021, longitude -3.45653, 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
- 199250D210539
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 November 2016.
Serious
Toyota Hilux crash on the A30 in East Devon, 29 November 2016
22 m awayRef 2016500148695
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A30 in East Devon, 6 April 2000
64 m awayRef 200050D211553
Fatal
Car crash on the A30 in East Devon, 28 January 1981
71 m awayRef 198150J920074
Slight
Suzuki GZ 125 crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 20 January 2025
76 m awayRef 2025501544121
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A30 in East Devon, 17 May 1988
80 m awayRef 198850D210744
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in East Devon, 2 December 1984
82 m awayRef 198450D212201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar XJ Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,235 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jaguar XJ Series)
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 199250D210539 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 1992.