A3052 crash in East Devon on 30 March 2007 at 13:17 involving a BMW M3
Four vehicles, including a BMW M3 and a Peugeot 306, were involved in a crash on the A3052 in East Devon at 13:17 on Friday 30 March 2007. The 34-year-old male driver of the Suzuki Vitara was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2007
- Friday, 13:17
- Vehicles
- 4
- BMW M3 and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72102, longitude -3.48179, in the EX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Loyes, Exeter, EX1 3HB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750D33D454
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2017.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 22 December 2017
12 m awayRef 2017500257979
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A3052 in Exeter, 12 April 2007
14 m awayRef 200750D21E003
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3183 in Exeter, 4 September 1995
20 m awayRef 199550D211844
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A3052 in Exeter, 29 March 2005
22 m awayRef 200550D21E071
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B3183 in Exeter, 6 March 2019
30 m awayRef 2019500837660
Slight
Optare crash on the B3183 in Exeter, 6 October 2023
30 m awayRef 2023501360361
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: BMW M3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,246 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 3: Suzuki Vitara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 4: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Suzuki Vitara)
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 200750D33D454 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 2007.