B3238 crash in Plymouth on 5 December 2000 at 15:55 involving an Iveco-Ford lorry
An Iveco-Ford lorry and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the B3238 in Plymouth at 15:55 on Tuesday 5 December 2000. The 18-year-old female driver of the Nissan Micra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2000
- Tuesday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Iveco-Ford and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.37826, longitude -4.13075, in the PL4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050E313239
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3238
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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 12 November 1999.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B3238 in Plymouth, 12 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199950E312866
Slight
Bus crash on the B3238 in Plymouth, 8 February 1984
At the same spotRef 198450E310251
Serious
Car crash on the B3238 in Plymouth, 15 February 1985
At the same spotRef 198550E310306
Serious
Car crash on the B3238 in Plymouth, 3 November 1982
At the same spotRef 198250E351496
Serious
Car crash on the B3238 in Plymouth, 9 March 1982
At the same spotRef 198250E350319
Serious
Car crash on the B3238 in Plymouth, 12 November 1983
At the same spotRef 198350E312334
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Iveco-Ford
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
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 200050E313239 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 2000.