Unclassified road crash in Plymouth PL4 on 14 December 2014 at 01:05 involving a car
A car and a taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth at 01:05 on Sunday 14 December 2014. The 33-year-old female driver of the taxi, a 19-year-old male passenger in the taxi and the 29-year-old female driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2014
- Sunday, 01:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and taxi
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.37093, longitude -4.13053, in the PL4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sutton and Mount Gould, Plymouth, PL4 9PX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Plymouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450EC2F007
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 2015.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 31 July 2015
3 m awayRef 201550EC2F004
Slight
Car crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 13 August 1979
5 m awayRef 197950E351163
Slight
Triumph Acclaim crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 9 February 1992
5 m awayRef 199250E310274
Slight
Car crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 16 November 1987
9 m awayRef 198750E312106
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 25 September 2014
9 m awayRef 201450EC2F006
Slight
ERF crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 17 April 1992
9 m awayRef 199250E311328
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, 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 201450EC2F007 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 2014.