Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA3 on 23 December 2004 at 23:50 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on an unclassified road in Swansea at 23:50 on Thursday 23 December 2004. The 22-year-old male driver and a 15-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2004
- Thursday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58486, longitude -4.06042, in the SA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bishopston.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004620123565
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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, no street lighting
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
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The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 2005.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2004620123565 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 2004.