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A345 crash in Swindon on 19 December 1982 at 20:45 involving a car

A car crashed on the A345 in Swindon at 20:45 on Sunday 19 December 1982. The 33-year-old male driver and an 8-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
19 Dec 1982
Sunday, 20:45
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5776, longitude -1.77714, in the SN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198254DN01632
Council area
Swindon
Police force
Wiltshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
345
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
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp
Special conditions at the site
Auto signal part defective
Carriageway hazards
Defective traffic signals

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 1986.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object in carriageway
    Other object
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    33 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 198254DN01632 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 1982.