Serious A35 crash in East Devon on 28 June 1998 at 12:35 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna and a car were involved in a crash on the A35 in East Devon at 12:35 on Sunday 28 June 1998. The 41-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Jun 1998
- Sunday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Laguna and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78641, longitude -3.05637, in the EX13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199850D363710
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 February 2002.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A35 in East Devon, 20 February 2002
32 m awayRef 200250D361020
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A35 in East Devon, 27 July 1994
32 m awayRef 199450D361827
Serious
Lorry crash on the A35 in East Devon, 5 August 1997
54 m awayRef 199750D362670
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A35 in East Devon, 14 September 1987
76 m awayRef 198750D361469
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A35 in East Devon, 14 March 2009
76 m awayRef 200950KA2F003
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A35 in East Devon, 10 September 2016
98 m awayRef 2016500113664
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 199850D363710 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.