Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA2 on 30 November 2008 at 21:00 involving a Volvo V50
A Volvo V50 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swansea at 21:00 on Sunday 30 November 2008. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2008
- Sunday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo V50
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62284, longitude -4.02747, in the SA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swansea.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008620185105
- Council area
- Swansea
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4296
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 2008.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4296 in Swansea, 25 February 2008
At the same spotRef 2008620177786
Fatal
Car crash on the B4296 in Swansea, 16 February 2005
10 m awayRef 2005620126142
Slight
Skoda Karoq crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 11 April 2025
18 m awayRef 2025622500275
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4296 in Swansea, 17 June 2000
36 m awayRef 2000620016841
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 18 April 1994
51 m awayRef 199462J012094
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 19 October 1985
51 m awayRef 1985620J12460
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V50
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo V50)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2008620185105 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.