Unclassified road crash in Swindon SN2 on 27 February 2002 at 15:10 involving a Ford Mondeo
A van, a Ford Mondeo and a Suzuki AY 50 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swindon at 15:10 on Wednesday 27 February 2002. The 24-year-old female rider of the Suzuki AY 50 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Feb 2002
- Wednesday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Mondeo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57522, longitude -1.77731, in the SN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penhill & Pinehurst, Swindon, SN2 1AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swindon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200254DN13802
- 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
- Other 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
- Raining, 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 16 July 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A345 in Swindon, 16 July 1982
At the same spotRef 198254DD07932
Fatal
Car crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 6 August 1987
At the same spotRef 198754DN04827
Slight
Car crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 5 October 1986
20 m awayRef 198654DN06516
Slight
Car crash on the A345 in Swindon, 31 August 1985
20 m awayRef 198554DN05705
Slight
Car crash on the A345 in Swindon, 25 July 1985
30 m awayRef 198554DN04805
Slight
Van crash on the A345 in Swindon, 18 December 1981
30 m awayRef 198154DD14511
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Suzuki AY 50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 24, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 3 (Suzuki AY 50)
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 200254DN13802 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.