A35 crash in East Devon on 6 February 2012 at 13:42 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira crashed on the A35 in East Devon at 13:42 on Monday 6 February 2012. The 67-year-old male driver and a 68-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Feb 2012
- Monday, 13:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79407, longitude -3.1294, in the EX14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250KN3M001
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 1990.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A35 in East Devon, 26 May 1990
4 m awayRef 199050D350969
Fatal
Renault Megane crash on the A35 in East Devon, 22 December 2008
48 m awayRef 200850KH2C005
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A35 in East Devon, 21 February 1997
54 m awayRef 199750D350634
Slight
Volkswagen Touareg crash on the A35 in East Devon, 2 January 2020
94 m awayRef 2020500922435
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A35 in East Devon, 23 October 1998
98 m awayRef 199850D356459
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A35 in East Devon, 23 June 2007
113 m awayRef 200750D35H317
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- 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 201250KN3M001 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 2012.