B3396 crash in Plymouth on 21 January 2003 at 20:14 involving a Rover 800 Series
A Rover 800 Series and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the B3396 in Plymouth at 20:14 on Tuesday 21 January 2003. A 62-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2003
- Tuesday, 20:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 800 Series and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.39239, longitude -4.17852, in the PL2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Devonport, Plymouth, PL2 2AJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200350E41A485
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3396
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 4 March 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the A3042 in Plymouth, 4 March 1980
At the same spotRef 198050E420277
Serious
Car crash on the B3396 in Plymouth, 31 March 1986
At the same spotRef 198650E410611
Slight
Car crash on the A3042 in Plymouth, 9 May 1980
At the same spotRef 198050E420582
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 20 September 2010
At the same spotRef 201050ED2K009
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the B3396 in Plymouth, 13 June 1990
At the same spotRef 199050E411143
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B3396 in Plymouth, 2 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200250E411842
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 800 Series
Car
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 200350E41A485 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 2003.