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Serious unclassified road crash in Swindon SN2 on 22 December 1981 at 18:00 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swindon at 18:00 on Tuesday 22 December 1981. A 55-year-old male pedestrian hit by vehicle 1 was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
22 Dec 1981
Tuesday, 18:00
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58173, longitude -1.77222, in the SN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198154DD14371
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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Snowing, no high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 73 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 July 2005.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object in carriageway
    Parked vehicle
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    34 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver age
    0 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 55, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, not crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 198154DD14371 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 1981.