Unclassified road crash in Plymouth PL4 on 29 May 2004 at 08:10 involving a Vauxhall Astra
Two Vauxhall Astras were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth at 08:10 on Saturday 29 May 2004. The 33-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 May 2004
- Saturday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.38308, longitude -4.1131, in the PL4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Efford and Lipson, Plymouth, PL3 6AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Plymouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200450E31G915
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 November 1991.
Slight
Hillman Avenger crash on the B3214 in Plymouth, 13 November 1991
20 m awayRef 199150E212527
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B3214 in Plymouth, 19 October 1995
22 m awayRef 199550E212556
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the B3214 in Plymouth, 12 July 2022
23 m awayRef 2022501204402
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 14 October 1998
32 m awayRef 199850E312357
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 29 March 2012
38 m awayRef 201250EL2D006
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3214 in Plymouth, 13 September 2025
41 m awayRef 2025501641554
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200450E31G915 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 2004.