A3052 crash in East Devon on 3 June 2025 at 00:10 involving a Vauxhall Tigra
A Vauxhall Tigra and a Land Rover Defender were involved in a crash on the A3052 in East Devon at 00:10 on Tuesday 3 June 2025. The 38-year-old male driver of the Land Rover Defender and the 51-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Tigra were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Tuesday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Tigra and Land Rover Defender
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69872, longitude -3.27481, in the EX10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newton Poppleford & Harpford, East Devon, EX10 0FE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501597812
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 1998.
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the B3052 in East Devon, 23 October 1998
4 m awayRef 199850D336426
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 23 April 1985
13 m awayRef 198550D330664
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 26 January 1995
16 m awayRef 199550D330214
Slight
Car crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 2 October 1984
18 m awayRef 198450D331750
Slight
Volkswagen Vento crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 13 December 2005
18 m awayRef 200550D33R272
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 29 October 1993
29 m awayRef 199350D332695
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Tigra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Defender
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Defender)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Tigra)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025501597812 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.