A3052 crash in East Devon on 15 January 2025 at 17:52 involving a Kia Rio
A Kia Rio and a Toyota C-HR were involved in a crash on the A3052 in East Devon at 17:52 on Wednesday 15 January 2025. A 74-year-old male passenger in the Toyota C-HR, the 86-year-old female driver of the Kia Rio and the 81-year-old male driver of the Toyota C-HR were 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jan 2025
- Wednesday, 17:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kia Rio and Toyota C-HR
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70564, longitude -3.34934, 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
- 2025501542575
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3180
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 2018.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 5 October 2018
1 m awayRef 2018500800354
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 16 April 2015
4 m awayRef 201550KO2X002
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 13 May 2013
4 m awayRef 201350KO2X003
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 26 October 1987
16 m awayRef 198750D211726
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 7 September 2019
17 m awayRef 2019500880069
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 29 November 2001
21 m awayRef 200150D327512
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kia Rio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 86 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Toyota C-HR
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota C-HR)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 86, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Rio)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota C-HR)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2025501542575 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 2025.