Serious C road crash in Swindon SN1 on 10 March 2003 at 01:51 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Swindon at 01:51 on Monday 10 March 2003. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Mar 2003
- Monday, 01:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56364, longitude -1.7879, in the SN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Broadgreen, Swindon, SN1 2BN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200354DC09603
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto signal part defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 February 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 3 February 1988
At the same spotRef 198854DS00318
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Swindon, 10 January 1990
At the same spotRef 199054DS00070
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Swindon, 26 January 1993
At the same spotRef 199354DS00493
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 4 August 1981
At the same spotRef 198154DD08221
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Swindon, 21 August 1985
At the same spotRef 198554DS08285
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Swindon, 29 November 1986
At the same spotRef 198654DS13136
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (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 200354DC09603 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 2003.