A4259 crash in Swindon on 11 December 2010 at 23:45 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Honda Jazz were involved in a crash on the A4259 in Swindon at 23:45 on Saturday 11 December 2010. The 40-year-old female driver of the Honda Jazz, a 42-year-old male passenger in the Honda Jazz and a 17-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 2010
- Saturday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Honda Jazz
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56748, longitude -1.77576, in the SN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Broadgreen, Swindon, SN1 2BN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201054DC39210
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 18 March 2000
At the same spotRef 200054DS17600
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 7 July 2025
9 m awayRef 2025541624556
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 22 February 2002
10 m awayRef 200254DS13302
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 15 April 2011
10 m awayRef 201154DC12811
Slight
Bus crash on the A345 in Swindon, 3 February 1982
10 m awayRef 198254DD01192
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4289 in Swindon, 22 August 2024
13 m awayRef 2024549936624
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Jazz
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
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Jazz)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Jazz)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 201054DC39210 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 2010.