A3052 crash in East Devon on 12 September 2019 at 00:27 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the A3052 in East Devon at 00:27 on Thursday 12 September 2019. The 18-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Sep 2019
- Thursday, 00:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72717, longitude -3.03576, in the EX12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019500890391
- 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
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 August 2025.
Serious
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 16 August 2025
8 m awayRef 2025501632807
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 17 July 1982
109 m awayRef 198250D341210
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 8 August 1979
115 m awayRef 197950L800566
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 19 August 2002
162 m awayRef 200250D345158
Serious
Mercedes 200 crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 7 August 1993
177 m awayRef 199350D341903
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 8 April 2011
189 m awayRef 201150KN3I002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2019500890391 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 2019.