Unclassified road crash in Swindon SN1 on 2 July 1980 at 18:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swindon at 18:00 on Wednesday 2 July 1980. A 67-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 1980
- Wednesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54812, longitude -1.78046, in the SN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198054DD06730
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 2009.
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 26 October 1984
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Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 28 June 1991
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Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 23 May 1990
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 23 December 1980
51 m awayRef 198054DD14520
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 67, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198054DD06730 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swindon road accident statistics for 1980.