Unclassified road crash in Plymouth PL3 on 2 September 2007 at 20:20 involving a Mercedes A Class
A motorcycle and a Mercedes A Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth at 20:20 on Sunday 2 September 2007. The 26-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 2 Sep 2007
- Sunday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.3784, longitude -4.16198, in the PL3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stoke, Plymouth, PL1 5QR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Plymouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750E41K428
- 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
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 2003.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 10 February 2003
At the same spotRef 200350E41B144
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Plymouth, 15 May 1982
At the same spotRef 198250E420645
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Plymouth, 3 November 1988
At the same spotRef 198850E411992
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Plymouth, 9 November 1983
At the same spotRef 198350E412270
Slight
Bedford crash on a C road in Plymouth, 6 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199850E412893
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Plymouth, 16 March 1982
At the same spotRef 198250E420368
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200750E41K428 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 2007.