Unclassified road crash in Swindon SN2 on 27 December 2004 at 18:16 involving a Sym City Hopper motorcycle
A Sym City Hopper motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swindon at 18:16 on Monday 27 December 2004. A 47-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2004
- Monday, 18:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Sym City Hopper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58065, longitude -1.80037, in the SN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rodbourne Cheney, Swindon, SN2 2LA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200454DN66804
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 May 1994.
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 13 May 1994
32 m awayRef 199454DN03104
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B4006 in Swindon, 31 May 1998
71 m awayRef 199854DN03058
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the B4006 in Swindon, 27 June 1993
71 m awayRef 199354DN03753
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 2 December 1985
92 m awayRef 198554DN08515
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 16 May 1981
100 m awayRef 198154DD05061
Serious
Car crash on the B4006 in Swindon, 17 August 1985
110 m awayRef 198554DN05395
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Sym City Hopper
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 47, hit by vehicle 1 (Sym City Hopper)
- 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 200454DN66804 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.