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Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA1 on 8 December 1979 at 20:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swansea at 20:30 on Saturday 8 December 1979. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
8 Dec 1979
Saturday, 20:30
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61943, longitude -3.95011, in the SA1 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
1979620H04420
Council area
Swansea
Police force
South Wales

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph

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
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 19 December 1983.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

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

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    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 1979620H04420 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.