Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA4 on 12 December 2006 at 19:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swansea at 19:40 on Tuesday 12 December 2006. The 39-year-old female driver of the car and a 9-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2006
- Tuesday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6504, longitude -4.04069, in the SA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gowerton and Waunarlwydd. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gowerton, Swansea, SA4 3AF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006620161581
- 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
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2004.
Slight
Car crash on the B4296 in Swansea, 1 February 2004
At the same spotRef 2004620102217
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the B4296 in Swansea, 9 October 2002
10 m awayRef 2002620070864
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 28 July 2005
10 m awayRef 2005620136950
Serious
Triumph Tiger crash on the B4296 in Swansea, 21 January 2006
14 m awayRef 2006620146994
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B4926 in Swansea, 10 January 1995
20 m awayRef 199562M000595
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4296 in Swansea, 30 June 1990
20 m awayRef 1990620H43140
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 2006620161581 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.