A3102 crash in Swindon on 22 December 1995 at 14:30 involving a Volkswagen Santana
A Volkswagen Santana and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A3102 in Swindon at 14:30 on Friday 22 December 1995. The 26-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1995
- Friday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Santana and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55473, longitude -1.80668, in the SN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199554DS07875
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3102
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 1993.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3102 in Swindon, 20 March 1993
At the same spotRef 199354DS01383
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the A3102 in Swindon, 30 June 1995
At the same spotRef 199554DN03745
Serious
Austin Montego crash on the A3102 in Swindon, 18 May 1991
At the same spotRef 199154DS02921
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A3102 in Swindon, 29 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199854DS05368
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A3102 in Swindon, 15 November 1990
At the same spotRef 199054DS03510
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A3102 in Swindon, 5 July 1997
At the same spotRef 199754DS04457
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Santana
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199554DS07875 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 1995.