C road crash in Swindon SN1 on 4 February 1994 at 18:59 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Suzuki motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Swindon at 18:59 on Friday 4 February 1994. The 30-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Feb 1994
- Friday, 18:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56457, longitude -1.78211, 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
- 199454DS00854
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 1994.
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 10 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199454DN07844
Serious
Vauxhall Belmont crash on a C road in Swindon, 9 January 1992
At the same spotRef 199254DS00202
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on a C road in Swindon, 15 January 2019
8 m awayRef 2019540463219
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Swindon, 3 October 2018
12 m awayRef 2018549343718
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Swindon, 6 April 1987
20 m awayRef 198754DS04027
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Swindon, 21 May 1988
22 m awayRef 198854DS01428
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Suzuki)
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 199454DS00854 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 1994.