Unclassified road crash in Plymouth PL6 on 2 May 2018 at 06:53 involving a Hyosung GT 125 motorcycle
A Hyosung GT 125 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Plymouth at 06:53 on Wednesday 2 May 2018. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2018
- Wednesday, 06:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyosung GT 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.41088, longitude -4.13282, in the PL6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Budshead, Plymouth, PL6 5FE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Plymouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500295366
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 1989.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A386 in Plymouth, 20 October 1989
6 m awayRef 198950E212119
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 8 February 2004
8 m awayRef 200450E21B532
Slight
Leyland Cars Mini crash on the A386 in Plymouth, 6 January 1997
15 m awayRef 199750E210028
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 2 November 1998
16 m awayRef 199850E212552
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A386 in Plymouth, 11 June 1980
16 m awayRef 198050E400728
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3373 in Plymouth, 22 November 2023
18 m awayRef 2023501378687
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyosung GT 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Hyosung GT 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2018500295366 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 2018.