A374 crash in Plymouth on 13 December 2011 at 20:31 involving a Citroen C1
A car and a Citroen C1 were involved in a crash on the A374 in Plymouth at 20:31 on Tuesday 13 December 2011. The 39-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2011
- Tuesday, 20:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Citroen C1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.37265, longitude -4.11278, in the PL4 postcode district. 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
- 201150EC2J072
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 374
- Road type
- Single 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 with 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 2025.
Slight
Volkswagen T-Roc crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 27 April 2025
7 m awayRef 2025501587199
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 20 November 1992
10 m awayRef 199250E312681
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 16 October 1997
10 m awayRef 199750E312532
Slight
Car crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 8 July 1980
10 m awayRef 198050E350824
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 11 May 2005
10 m awayRef 200550E51F767
Slight
FSO Cars Polonez crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 28 March 1994
10 m awayRef 199450E310853
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201150EC2J072 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.