Unclassified road crash in Plymouth PL9 on 2 October 2008 at 21:49 involving a Volvo 440
A Volvo 440 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Plymouth at 21:49 on Thursday 2 October 2008. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 2008
- Thursday, 21:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo 440
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.35183, longitude -4.10524, in the PL9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Plymstock Radford, Plymouth, PL9 9PE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Plymouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850EK2A011
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 25 September 1981.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Plymouth, 25 September 1981
At the same spotRef 198150G470815
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Plymouth, 5 May 1982
30 m awayRef 198250G470347
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 27 May 2005
32 m awayRef 200550E31G744
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 27 September 2004
41 m awayRef 200450E52N575
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 17 June 1996
50 m awayRef 199650E521377
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 22 February 2006
51 m awayRef 200650E52C241
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo 440
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo 440)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 200850EK2A011 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.