Serious A3052 crash in East Devon on 23 May 1994 at 21:55 involving a Ford Cortina
A Ford Cortina crashed on the A3052 in East Devon at 21:55 on Monday 23 May 1994. A 15-year-old male passenger was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 23 May 1994
- Monday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Cortina
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70149, longitude -3.28287, 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
- 199450D331236
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3052
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 30 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 February 1981.
Serious
Van crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 9 February 1981
30 m awayRef 198150L810099
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 29 September 2015
44 m awayRef 201550KS2B003
Serious
Triumph crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 19 August 1994
54 m awayRef 199450D332013
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 5 June 1990
63 m awayRef 199050D331039
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 27 August 2018
74 m awayRef 2018500328502
Serious
Lorry crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 31 August 1983
81 m awayRef 198350D331602
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Cortina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Cortina)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 199450D331236 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 1994.