A3052 crash in East Devon on 16 April 2015 at 20:48 involving a Daewoo Matiz
A Daewoo Matiz and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the A3052 in East Devon at 20:48 on Thursday 16 April 2015. The 59-year-old male driver of the Daewoo Matiz was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2015
- Thursday, 20:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Daewoo Matiz and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70564, longitude -3.34939, in the EX5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Budleigh & Raleigh, East Devon, EX5 2JW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550KO2X002
- 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
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3179
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 2018.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 5 October 2018
3 m awayRef 2018500800354
Slight
Kia Rio crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 15 January 2025
4 m awayRef 2025501542575
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 13 May 2013
7 m awayRef 201350KO2X003
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 26 October 1987
12 m awayRef 198750D211726
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 7 September 2019
16 m awayRef 2019500880069
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 29 November 2001
18 m awayRef 200150D327512
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Daewoo Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Matiz)
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 201550KO2X002 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 2015.