Unclassified road crash in Swindon SN2 on 17 June 1999 at 15:40 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swindon at 15:40 on Thursday 17 June 1999. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jun 1999
- Thursday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58525, longitude -1.75951, in the SN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stratton St Margaret.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199954DN35599
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 1990.
Slight
Ford Capri crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 12 December 1990
41 m awayRef 199054DN02700
Slight
Leyland DAF 200 crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 7 October 1995
41 m awayRef 199554DN06155
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 30 March 2023
41 m awayRef 2023543428823
Slight
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 16 April 2002
42 m awayRef 200254DE27202
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 20 January 1998
61 m awayRef 199854DN00408
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 2 December 1993
61 m awayRef 199354DN07073
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 199954DN35599 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 1999.