Unclassified road crash in Swindon SN3 on 2 July 2002 at 08:35 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swindon at 08:35 on Tuesday 2 July 2002. A 15-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 2002
- Tuesday, 08:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55747, longitude -1.76182, in the SN3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Walcot, Swindon, SN3 1BN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200254DE39002
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 February 1995.
Slight
Proton Proton crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 24 February 1995
81 m awayRef 199554DS01375
Slight
Renault crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 11 September 1993
81 m awayRef 199354DS05243
Slight
Alfa Romeo Alfasud crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 23 January 1990
81 m awayRef 199054DS00270
Serious
Car crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 23 July 2001
81 m awayRef 200154DS43801
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 8 May 1996
81 m awayRef 199654DS02876
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 8 January 1996
81 m awayRef 199654DS00196
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- 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 200254DE39002 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 2002.