C road crash in Swindon SN1 on 21 April 2008 at 19:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Swindon at 19:45 on Monday 21 April 2008. An 83-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 2008
- Monday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56076, longitude -1.7895, in the SN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rodbourne Ferndale & Western, Swindon, SN2 1TY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swindon
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200854DC14008
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 2012.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in Swindon, 8 September 2012
At the same spotRef 2012548115412
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 2 September 2025
5 m awayRef 2025541640670
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Swindon, 5 August 2010
10 m awayRef 201054DC23110
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 15 November 1983
10 m awayRef 198354DS10043
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Swindon, 8 July 1986
10 m awayRef 198654DS07496
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Swindon, 4 May 1987
14 m awayRef 198754DS04337
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 83, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200854DC14008 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 2008.