Serious B3396 crash in Plymouth on 11 December 2014 at 07:30 involving a Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle
A car and a Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B3396 in Plymouth at 07:30 on Thursday 11 December 2014. The 30-year-old male rider of the Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Dec 2014
- Thursday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Yamaha YZF R125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.3847, longitude -4.15944, in the PL3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stoke, Plymouth, PL2 3BD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Plymouth
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450ED2N059
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 May 2013.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3396 in Plymouth, 22 May 2013
3 m awayRef 201350ED2N025
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3041 in Plymouth, 24 April 1981
5 m awayRef 198150E420517
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B3396 in Plymouth, 16 November 1991
5 m awayRef 199150E412569
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B3396 in Plymouth, 12 February 2003
5 m awayRef 200350E41B347
Serious
Car crash on the B3396 in Plymouth, 21 September 1984
5 m awayRef 198450E411919
Slight
Car crash on the B3396 in Plymouth, 25 November 1986
5 m awayRef 198650E412378
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha YZF R125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha YZF R125)
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 201450ED2N059 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.