A3052 crash in East Devon on 31 August 2000 at 15:39 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A3052 in East Devon at 15:39 on Thursday 31 August 2000. The 54-year-old male driver was 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
- 31 Aug 2000
- Thursday, 15:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70867, longitude -3.17661, in the EX10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050D344563
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 1992.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 13 May 1992
22 m awayRef 199250D340712
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 30 December 2004
28 m awayRef 200450D33S367
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 30 September 1986
45 m awayRef 198650D341774
Slight
Abarth 595 crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 19 March 2025
54 m awayRef 2025501566657
Serious
Kawasaki ZX crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 9 March 2023
75 m awayRef 2023501285137
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 21 June 1995
89 m awayRef 199550D331323
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 200050D344563 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.