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B4534 crash in Swindon on 16 January 1998 at 23:08 involving a Nissan Sunny

A Nissan Sunny hit a pedestrian on the B4534 in Swindon at 23:08 on Friday 16 January 1998. A 50-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
16 Jan 1998
Friday, 23:08
Vehicles
1
Nissan Sunny
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56016, longitude -1.83118, 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
199854DN00328
Council area
Swindon
Police force
Wiltshire

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
4534
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 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
Dark, street lights unlit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 28 September 1996.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Nissan Sunny

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    29 years
    Engine capacity
    1,392 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    6 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Sunny)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 199854DN00328 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 1998.