B3396 crash in Plymouth on 4 April 2014 at 23:18 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara and a Suzuki Swift were involved in a crash on the B3396 in Plymouth at 23:18 on Friday 4 April 2014. The 38-year-old female driver of the Citroen Xsara was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 2014
- Friday, 23:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Xsara and Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.39206, longitude -4.17954, in the PL2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Devonport, Plymouth, PL2 2AJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Plymouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450ED2K007
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3396
- 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 September 2021.
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the B3396 in Plymouth, 12 September 2021
5 m awayRef 2021501097520
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B3396 in Plymouth, 20 January 2005
15 m awayRef 200550E41A558
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3042 in Plymouth, 18 February 1983
15 m awayRef 198350E410286
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B3396 in Plymouth, 1 September 1992
17 m awayRef 199250E411959
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3396 in Plymouth, 18 November 1990
17 m awayRef 199050E412773
Serious
Honda NS125F crash on the B3396 in Plymouth, 23 August 1990
17 m awayRef 199050E411697
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
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 201450ED2K007 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.