Unclassified road crash in Swindon SN3 on 26 April 1999 at 22:38 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and an Aprilia motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swindon at 22:38 on Monday 26 April 1999. The 20-year-old male rider of the Aprilia 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 1999
- Monday, 22:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Aprilia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56537, longitude -1.75471, in the SN3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199954DS07509
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
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
- 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 5 October 1993.
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Triumph Dolomite crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 5 October 1993
At the same spotRef 199354DS05763
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Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 20 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199754DS09057
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 1 July 1995
At the same spotRef 199554DS03765
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Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 18 May 2007
28 m awayRef 200754DE25007
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Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 14 May 1988
28 m awayRef 198854DS01338
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Volkswagen crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 23 May 2008
36 m awayRef 200854DE19308
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Aprilia
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Aprilia)
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 199954DS07509 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.