A379 crash in Plymouth on 10 April 2014 at 20:00 involving an Audi 80
An Audi 80 and a Honda CBR600RR motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A379 in Plymouth at 20:00 on Thursday 10 April 2014. The 35-year-old female rider of the Honda CBR600RR motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Apr 2014
- Thursday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi 80 and Honda CBR600RR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.36699, longitude -4.10417, in the PL9 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450EK2B012
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 379
- Road type
- Single 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 2001.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A379 in Plymouth, 10 October 2001
5 m awayRef 200150E522330
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A379 in Plymouth, 19 July 2000
5 m awayRef 200050E521967
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 8 April 2006
5 m awayRef 200650E52E324
Serious
Car crash on the A379 in Plymouth, 30 August 1985
5 m awayRef 198550E521637
Serious
Peugeot Speedfight crash on the A379 in Plymouth, 27 May 2010
8 m awayRef 201050EK2B019
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A379 in Plymouth, 31 December 2013
8 m awayRef 201350EK2B048
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi 80
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBR600RR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 35, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBR600RR)
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 201450EK2B012 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.