Fatal unclassified road crash in Swindon SN1 on 15 December 2010 at 19:30 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swindon at 19:30 on Wednesday 15 December 2010. An 85-year-old female pedestrian was killed.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 15 Dec 2010
- Wednesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56146, longitude -1.77608, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Swindon
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201054DC39610
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- 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
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 3 October 1984
20 m awayRef 198454DS09744
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 29 September 1984
22 m awayRef 198454DS09514
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Swindon, 1 July 1990
45 m awayRef 199054DS01880
Slight
Fiat 126 crash on a C road in Swindon, 27 August 1997
45 m awayRef 199754DS05787
Serious
MAN Tge crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 29 March 2025
47 m awayRef 2025543831225
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 24 March 1981
50 m awayRef 198154DD03351
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
FatalFemale, aged 85, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- 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 201054DC39610 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.