A3052 crash in East Devon on 17 January 2000 at 07:40 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the A3052 in East Devon at 07:40 on Monday 17 January 2000. The 27-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra, a 25-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Vectra and the 25-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 2000
- Monday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71265, longitude -3.13733, in the EX12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050D330239
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 August 1991.
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 15 August 1991
10 m awayRef 199150D341458
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 30 June 2025
17 m awayRef 2025501609710
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 11 October 2003
20 m awayRef 200350D34L829
Serious
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 27 October 1989
20 m awayRef 198950D341867
Serious
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 14 May 2023
29 m awayRef 2023501308735
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 5 August 1989
40 m awayRef 198950D341371
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 200050D330239 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 2000.