Serious A3052 crash in East Devon on 28 November 1997 at 11:20 involving a Nissan Primera
Four vehicles, including a car and a Nissan Primera, were involved in a crash on the A3052 in East Devon at 11:20 on Friday 28 November 1997. The 86-year-old female driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Nov 1997
- Friday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 4
- Nissan Primera and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70028, longitude -3.24574, 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
- 199750D334473
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 May 2016.
Slight
MG ZR crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 29 May 2016
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Slight
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6 m awayRef 2023501342486
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 2 June 1987
50 m awayRef 198750D330788
Serious
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 15 May 1982
50 m awayRef 198250D330754
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 3 November 1983
51 m awayRef 198350D332090
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 21 January 1990
54 m awayRef 199050D330146
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 86 years
- Engine capacity
- 875 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Nissan Primera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 4: Mercedes 190
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 86, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 199750D334473 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 1997.