Serious A361 crash in Swindon on 11 March 1991 at 16:04 involving a Toyota Starlet
A Toyota Starlet and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A361 in Swindon at 16:04 on Monday 11 March 1991. The 38-year-old female driver of the Toyota Starlet was seriously injured and the 28-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Mar 1991
- Monday, 16:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Starlet and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62288, longitude -1.71539, in the SN6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199154DH01561
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- 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 26 July 1998.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A361 in Swindon, 26 July 1998
At the same spotRef 199854DH04458
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in Swindon, 1 December 1984
At the same spotRef 198454DH03454
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A361 in Swindon, 4 July 1994
At the same spotRef 199454DH04304
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in Swindon, 25 July 1984
At the same spotRef 198454DH01934
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A361 in Swindon, 19 December 2005
40 m awayRef 200554DH54505
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A361 in Swindon, 2 October 2014
45 m awayRef 2014548887014
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Starlet
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Starlet)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 199154DH01561 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 1991.