M4 crash in Swansea on 9 April 2007 at 13:19 involving an Audi Cabriolet
A car and an Audi Cabriolet were involved in a crash on the M4 in Swansea at 13:19 on Monday 9 April 2007. The 41-year-old male driver of the car and the 35-year-old male driver of the Audi Cabriolet were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Apr 2007
- Monday, 13:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Audi Cabriolet
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67693, longitude -3.99849, in the SA4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penllergaer, Swansea, SA4 9FD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007620165691
- Council area
- Swansea
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 48
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 March 2008.
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the M4 in Swansea, 18 March 2008
14 m awayRef 2008620178612
Slight
Car crash on the M4 in Swansea, 8 December 2008
14 m awayRef 2008620185710
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the M4 in Swansea, 24 March 2008
14 m awayRef 2008620178637
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the M4 in Swansea, 21 January 2004
20 m awayRef 2004620101590
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the M4 in Swansea, 3 November 2007
32 m awayRef 2007620174831
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M4 in Swansea, 25 November 1998
36 m awayRef 199862J040398
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- 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
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Audi Cabriolet
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi Cabriolet)
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 2007620165691 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 2007.