Unclassified road crash in Plymouth PL4 on 6 December 2011 at 08:16 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira, a Citroen C3 and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth at 08:16 on Tuesday 6 December 2011. The 46-year-old female driver of the Citroen C3 and the 48-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2011
- Tuesday, 08:16
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Zafira and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.36936, longitude -4.11052, in the PL4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Plymstock Radford, Plymouth, PL9 7JD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Plymouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150EC2J070
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
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The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 June 2013.
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C3)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 201150EC2J070 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 2011.