Unclassified road crash in Swindon SN2 on 30 July 2005 at 17:00 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A motorcycle and a Land Rover Freelander were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swindon at 17:00 on Saturday 30 July 2005. The 26-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 2005
- Saturday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5815, longitude -1.77122, in the SN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penhill & Pinehurst, Swindon, SN2 1AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swindon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200554DE30505
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 2005.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 14 November 2005
10 m awayRef 200554DE48205
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 22 December 1981
73 m awayRef 198154DD14371
Serious
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 29 June 2010
100 m awayRef 201054DN19710
Slight
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 20 December 2006
102 m awayRef 200654DE59006
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 1 July 1986
104 m awayRef 198654DN04136
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 9 August 2004
106 m awayRef 200454DE41304
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,951 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200554DE30505 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 2005.