Serious unclassified road crash in Swansea SA6 on 12 December 2009 at 00:50 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swansea at 00:50 on Saturday 12 December 2009. A 46-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Dec 2009
- Saturday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70301, longitude -3.90137, in the SA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Clydach. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clydach, Swansea, SA6 5HA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009620196722
- 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
- Urban
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 2015.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 22 November 2015
11 m awayRef 2015621502031
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 10 September 2005
22 m awayRef 2005620138174
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 5 April 1988
63 m awayRef 1988620H10770
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 10 April 1981
78 m awayRef 1981620H01210
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 1 May 1979
86 m awayRef 1979620H01670
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 23 May 1987
102 m awayRef 1987620H13300
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 46, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- 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 2009620196722 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 2009.