A3052 crash in East Devon on 23 September 1999 at 22:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A3052 in East Devon at 22:00 on Thursday 23 September 1999. A 20-year-old female passenger and the 20-year-old female driver were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 1999
- Thursday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70589, longitude -3.35017, 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
- 199950D215911
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 March 2003.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3180 in Exeter, 31 March 2003
10 m awayRef 200350D35C731
Slight
Yamaha SR 125 crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 12 April 2001
10 m awayRef 200150D212187
Serious
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 19 January 1986
14 m awayRef 198650D210162
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 19 September 1987
14 m awayRef 198750D211515
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 29 July 2005
14 m awayRef 200550D35J615
Serious
Van crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 2 May 1987
14 m awayRef 198750D210597
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 199950D215911 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 1999.