C road crash in Swindon SN25 on 6 January 2000 at 17:05 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on a C road in Swindon at 17:05 on Thursday 6 January 2000. The 33-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort and a 23-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jan 2000
- Thursday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58317, longitude -1.79964, in the SN25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200054DN00600
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4006
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 August 2014.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Swindon, 3 August 2014
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Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Swindon, 8 December 1986
10 m awayRef 198654DN08606
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Swindon, 7 June 1984
10 m awayRef 198454DN03214
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Swindon, 6 July 1983
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Swindon, 14 December 2006
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Swindon, 25 September 1999
14 m awayRef 199954DN53699
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200054DN00600 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 2000.