Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA6 on 20 September 2008 at 06:15 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on an unclassified road in Swansea at 06:15 on Saturday 20 September 2008. The 21-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 2008
- Saturday, 06:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71386, longitude -3.91978, in the SA6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008620183463
- 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
- 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, 76 metres away, was a fatal crash on 3 May 1993.
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 3 May 1993
76 m awayRef 199362M010593
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 3 February 1990
133 m awayRef 1990620H02630
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 3 July 1997
133 m awayRef 199762J023197
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 10 August 1993
184 m awayRef 199362M021393
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 18 May 1979
202 m awayRef 1979620H01950
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the B4603 in Swansea, 8 June 1991
232 m awayRef 1991620H04240
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2008620183463 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.