A3052 crash in East Devon on 13 February 2020 at 12:35 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van, a Peugeot Expert van and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on the A3052 in East Devon at 12:35 on Thursday 13 February 2020. The 55-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van and the 21-year-old male driver of the Peugeot Expert van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Feb 2020
- Thursday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Transit and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70721, longitude -3.3648, 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
- 2020500933509
- Council area
- East 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
- 3052
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Wet or damp
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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 October 2025.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 16 October 2025
2 m awayRef 2025501658861
Slight
Honda CBR600F crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 2 September 2013
5 m awayRef 201350KO2X006
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 9 April 2015
6 m awayRef 201550KO2X001
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 29 September 2020
6 m awayRef 2020500988032
Slight
Hyundai i40 crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 24 December 2015
7 m awayRef 201550KO2X005
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 18 June 2013
9 m awayRef 201350KO2X004
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Expert
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot Expert)
- 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 2020500933509 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 2020.