Serious A3052 crash in East Devon on 24 June 2017 at 16:40 involving a Kia Rio
A Kia Rio crashed on the A3052 in East Devon at 16:40 on Saturday 24 June 2017. A 72-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jun 2017
- Saturday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Rio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71643, longitude -2.99857, in the DT7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500203964
- 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
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 17 May 2015
4 m awayRef 201550KN3C003
Serious
Van crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 30 May 1981
7 m awayRef 198150L790362
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 6 June 2025
11 m awayRef 2025501599758
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 24 May 1999
12 m awayRef 199950D342831
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 9 August 2005
40 m awayRef 200550D36K005
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 12 July 2005
50 m awayRef 200550D34I414
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Rio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Rio)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2017500203964 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 2017.