A35 crash in East Devon on 27 February 1998 at 22:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A35 in East Devon at 22:30 on Friday 27 February 1998. A 19-year-old female passenger and the 22-year-old male driver 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
- 27 Feb 1998
- Friday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80096, longitude -3.16214, 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
- 199850D351137
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 35
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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 serious injury crash on 23 September 1979.
Serious
Car crash on the A35 in East Devon, 23 September 1979
At the same spotRef 197950L780698
Slight
Honda crash on the A303 in East Devon, 16 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199850D354790
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A35 in East Devon, 25 July 2005
22 m awayRef 200550D35J229
Serious
Car crash on the A35 in East Devon, 28 July 1980
22 m awayRef 198050L780562
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the A35 in East Devon, 30 August 2008
30 m awayRef 200850KH2H028
Slight
Bus crash on the A35 in East Devon, 29 September 1981
30 m awayRef 198150L780751
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, 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 199850D351137 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 1998.