Serious unclassified road crash in Swansea SA3 on 26 May 2006 at 21:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swansea at 21:40 on Friday 26 May 2006. A 28-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 May 2006
- Friday, 21:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56993, longitude -3.98182, in the SA3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006620154031
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 July 2018.
Slight
Car crash on the B4433 in Swansea, 15 July 2018
7 m awayRef 2018621800890
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B4433 in Swansea, 5 October 2002
10 m awayRef 2002620070716
Slight
Car crash on the B4433 in Swansea, 14 September 1985
42 m awayRef 1985620J10800
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 26 July 1996
64 m awayRef 199662H022996
Slight
Morris Mini crash on the A4067 in Swansea, 27 October 1990
64 m awayRef 1990620H90060
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 8 June 2003
64 m awayRef 2003620087555
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2006620154031 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 2006.