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Serious unclassified road crash in Plymouth PL4 on 6 February 1979 at 22:10 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth at 22:10 on Tuesday 6 February 1979. A 36-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
6 Feb 1979
Tuesday, 22:10
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.37212, longitude -4.13575, in the PL4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth.

Map of where the crash happened in Plymouth

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197950E350171
Council area
Plymouth
Police force
Devon and Cornwall

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

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, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 2000.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    38 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    30 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 197950E350171 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Plymouth road accident statistics for 1979.