A374 crash in Plymouth on 12 March 2001 at 16:15 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A car and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A374 in Plymouth at 16:15 on Monday 12 March 2001. The 18-year-old female rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Mar 2001
- Monday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.37385, longitude -4.14054, in the PL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Peter and the Waterfront, Plymouth, PL1 1LU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200150E310573
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 374
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 1988.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 13 December 1988
At the same spotRef 198850E312286
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A388 in Plymouth, 18 May 1981
At the same spotRef 198150E350641
Slight
Car crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 25 November 1986
At the same spotRef 198650E312414
Slight
Car crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 14 November 1986
At the same spotRef 198650E312288
Slight
BMW X2 crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 14 October 2025
8 m awayRef 2025501654647
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 3 July 2004
10 m awayRef 200450E31I838
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha)
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 200150E310573 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 2001.