A4312 crash in Swindon on 18 June 2004 at 13:40 involving a Rover 45
A car and a Rover 45 were involved in a crash on the A4312 in Swindon at 13:40 on Friday 18 June 2004. A 74-year-old female passenger in the Rover 45 and the 67-year-old male driver of the Rover 45 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jun 2004
- Friday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Rover 45
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56198, longitude -1.76569, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Swindon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200454DC30404
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4312
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- A
- Second road number
- 4259
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 2012.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A4312 in Swindon, 11 May 2012
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Nissan Almera crash on the A4312 in Swindon, 6 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199954DS38899
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Skoda Octavia crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 31 August 2007
At the same spotRef 200754DE36907
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4312 in Swindon, 16 December 1999
At the same spotRef 199954DS68399
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BMW 3 Series crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 27 December 2025
1 m awayRef 2025541693540
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Toyota Yaris crash on the A4312 in Swindon, 19 January 2024
6 m awayRef 2024540966124
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 45
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,588 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 45)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 45)
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 200454DC30404 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 2004.