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A4118 crash in Swansea on 6 November 1979 at 10:45 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A4118 in Swansea at 10:45 on Tuesday 6 November 1979. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was 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
6 Nov 1979
Tuesday, 10:45
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61858, longitude -3.96828, in the SA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swansea.

Map of where the crash happened in Swansea

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979620H04050
Council area
Swansea
Police force
South Wales

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
4118
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 2005.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 1979620H04050 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swansea road accident statistics for 1979.