A4361 crash in Swindon on 17 February 2007 at 10:21 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the A4361 in Swindon at 10:21 on Saturday 17 February 2007. A 40-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf and a 58-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 206 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 2007
- Saturday, 10:21
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53414, longitude -1.78515, in the SN4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wroughton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Old Town & Lawn, Swindon, SN1 4RW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200754DC08407
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4361
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 1993.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A4361 in Swindon, 8 April 1993
20 m awayRef 199354DS01913
Slight
Car crash on the A4361 in Swindon, 19 August 1989
20 m awayRef 198954DS02319
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4361 in Swindon, 24 December 2014
26 m awayRef 201454B689014
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A361 in Swindon, 22 April 1984
51 m awayRef 198454DS03954
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A4361 in Swindon, 20 April 1999
80 m awayRef 199954DS07479
Serious
Triumph Acclaim crash on the A4361 in Swindon, 31 July 1992
80 m awayRef 199254DS04422
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
- 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 200754DC08407 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 2007.