A374 crash in Plymouth on 18 December 2012 at 09:10 involving a Honda CG125 motorcycle
A Honda CG125 motorcycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A374 in Plymouth at 09:10 on Tuesday 18 December 2012. The 20-year-old female rider of the Honda CG125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2012
- Tuesday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CG125 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.37555, longitude -4.1094, 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
- 201250EC2A021
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 374
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 May 2014.
Serious
Subaru Impreza crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 28 May 2014
4 m awayRef 201450EC2A009
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 14 May 1996
12 m awayRef 199650E311084
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 25 June 2018
14 m awayRef 2018500311305
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 14 May 1983
15 m awayRef 198350E310860
Serious
Van crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 14 February 1987
15 m awayRef 198750E310273
Slight
Car crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 16 August 1982
17 m awayRef 198250E351116
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CG125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda CG125)
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 201250EC2A021 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 2012.