A4311 crash in Swindon on 2 August 1986 at 23:03 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4311 in Swindon at 23:03 on Saturday 2 August 1986. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 1986
- Saturday, 23:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57374, longitude -1.77716, 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
- 198654DN05016
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4311
- 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
- 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 slight injury crash on 19 August 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 19 August 1984
At the same spotRef 198454DN04604
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 12 October 2025
4 m awayRef 2025541666109
Slight
Car crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 20 July 1987
10 m awayRef 198754DN04677
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 25 July 1987
10 m awayRef 198754DN04707
Slight
Van crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 22 December 1987
10 m awayRef 198754DN07127
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A345 in Swindon, 25 May 1985
10 m awayRef 198554DN03365
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198654DN05016 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 1986.