Unclassified road crash in Plymouth PL4 on 15 July 2008 at 17:20 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth at 17:20 on Tuesday 15 July 2008. A female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 2008
- Tuesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.37214, longitude -4.13596, in the PL4 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Plymouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850EC2E054
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 April 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 18 April 1988
At the same spotRef 198850E310702
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 4 October 1989
At the same spotRef 198950E311937
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 14 November 1993
At the same spotRef 199350E313254
Serious
Car crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 16 September 1986
At the same spotRef 198650E311848
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 1 August 1990
At the same spotRef 199050E311560
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 31 October 2008
At the same spotRef 200850EC2E120
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 200850EC2E054 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 2008.