A35 crash in East Devon on 2 October 1999 at 09:20 involving an Audi 80
An Audi 80 crashed on the A35 in East Devon at 09:20 on Saturday 2 October 1999. An 18-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 1999
- Saturday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi 80
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78017, longitude -2.99159, in the EX13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Axminster.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199950D365763
- 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
- 35
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 August 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A35 in East Devon, 27 August 1985
10 m awayRef 198550D361642
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B3261 in East Devon, 2 May 1995
14 m awayRef 199550D361026
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3261 in East Devon, 24 August 2021
25 m awayRef 2021501134267
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 19 April 1985
41 m awayRef 198550D360652
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A35 in East Devon, 8 July 1986
50 m awayRef 198650D361240
Slight
Car crash on the A35 in East Devon, 12 July 1982
50 m awayRef 198250D361195
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi 80
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi 80)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 199950D365763 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.