Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA4 on 2 February 2002 at 12:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swansea at 12:45 on Saturday 2 February 2002. The 53-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Feb 2002
- Saturday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66783, longitude -4.03121, in the SA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gorseinon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gorseinon and Penyrheol, Swansea, SA4 4EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002620054962
- Council area
- Swansea
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 February 2004.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A4240 in Swansea, 4 February 2004
At the same spotRef 2004620102517
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4240 in Swansea, 4 July 2003
At the same spotRef 2003620088652
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A4240 in Swansea, 6 January 2021
7 m awayRef 2021622100041
Slight
Lorry crash on the A484 in Swansea, 25 February 1986
14 m awayRef 1986620H04580
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4240 in Swansea, 2 February 2002
36 m awayRef 2002620053057
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4240 in Swansea, 17 March 1997
36 m awayRef 199762J009797
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2002620054962 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swansea road accident statistics for 2002.