Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA4 on 16 January 2008 at 21:12 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Swansea at 21:12 on Wednesday 16 January 2008. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 2008
- Wednesday, 21:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68459, longitude -4.03963, in the SA4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008620176276
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the B4296 in Swansea, 16 April 1988
At the same spotRef 1988620H11250
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 16 February 1995
At the same spotRef 199562M004295
Slight
Jaguar XE Series crash on the B4296 in Swansea, 1 September 2017
6 m awayRef 2017621701282
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the B4296 in Swansea, 25 January 2012
10 m awayRef 2012620214142
Slight
Car crash on the B4296 in Swansea, 7 October 1985
100 m awayRef 1985620J11870
Slight
Car crash on the B4296 in Swansea, 14 December 1983
100 m awayRef 1983620J13880
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2008620176276 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 2008.