A38 crash in Plymouth on 30 November 2014 at 10:55 involving a Vauxhall Mokka
A Vauxhall Mokka, a Dacia Sandero and an Audi A6 were involved in a crash on the A38 in Plymouth at 10:55 on Sunday 30 November 2014. The 20-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Mokka, a 46-year-old female passenger in the Dacia Sandero and the 40-year-old male driver of the Audi A6 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2014
- Sunday, 10:55
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Mokka and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.40798, longitude -4.20153, in the PL5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Saltash Essa, Cornwall, PL12 4EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Plymouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450EL2K018
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 2012.
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the A38 in Plymouth, 16 August 2012
12 m awayRef 201250EL2K010
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Plymouth, 4 September 1982
14 m awayRef 198250E421208
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in Plymouth, 22 April 1985
26 m awayRef 198550E410813
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 3 June 1996
34 m awayRef 199650B621729
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A38 in Plymouth, 23 July 2011
36 m awayRef 201150EL2K011
Slight
Opel Kadett crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 8 September 1994
36 m awayRef 199450B611511
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Mokka
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Dacia Sandero
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 898 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,393 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Mokka)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Dacia Sandero)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Audi A6)
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 201450EL2K018 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.