Serious unclassified road crash in Plymouth PL4 on 5 July 2013 at 12:40 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Plymouth at 12:40 on Friday 5 July 2013. The 19-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Jul 2013
- Friday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.3703, longitude -4.11233, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201350EC2J029
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Slip road
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
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The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2014.
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Serious
Car crash on the A379 in Plymouth, 25 March 1987
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 98 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 201350EC2J029 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 2013.