Unclassified road crash in Plymouth PL2 on 19 August 2015 at 17:21 involving a Mazda 323
A Mazda 323 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Plymouth at 17:21 on Wednesday 19 August 2015. A 34-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 2015
- Wednesday, 17:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 323
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.38889, longitude -4.17529, 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
- 201550ED2K014
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 October 1991.
Slight
Vanden Plas Princess crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 18 October 1991
7 m awayRef 199150E412331
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 14 November 1979
14 m awayRef 197950E421565
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 2 March 1988
14 m awayRef 198850E410404
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 5 April 1981
14 m awayRef 198150E420407
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 21 August 1981
24 m awayRef 198150E421066
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 21 May 2007
33 m awayRef 200750E41F816
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 323
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
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 323)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 201550ED2K014 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 2015.