A379 crash in Plymouth on 5 March 1986 at 15:10 involving a car
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 1986
- Wednesday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.37013, longitude -4.11175, in the PL4 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198650E310384
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 379
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 23 October 2017
10 m awayRef 2017500235804
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Plymouth, 26 December 1982
10 m awayRef 198250E351798
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A379 in Plymouth, 9 February 2015
19 m awayRef 201550EC2J005
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A379 in Plymouth, 6 October 2025
19 m awayRef 2025501651046
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Plymouth, 23 July 1980
20 m awayRef 198050E350925
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Plymouth, 15 April 1985
22 m awayRef 198550E310780
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
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 198650E310384 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 1986.