A3072 crash in Mid Devon on 7 August 2012 at 09:00 involving a Volkswagen Passat
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 2012
- Tuesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80132, longitude -3.82576, in the EX17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250KC4D003
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3072
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 2013.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A3072 in Mid Devon, 28 August 2013
6 m awayRef 201350KC4D001
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A3072 in Mid Devon, 20 September 1995
14 m awayRef 199550C521271
Slight
Skoda Citigo crash on the A3072 in Mid Devon, 12 July 2025
14 m awayRef 2025501615266
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A3072 in Mid Devon, 5 September 2003
22 m awayRef 200350D43K369
Serious
Car crash on the A3072 in Mid Devon, 19 April 1981
43 m awayRef 198150H260169
Slight
Kawasaki ER500 crash on the A3072 in Mid Devon, 19 June 2006
52 m awayRef 200650D43H445
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201250KC4D003 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 2012.