Unclassified road crash in Swindon SN5 on 16 March 2010 at 15:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swindon at 15:30 on Tuesday 16 March 2010. A 6-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 16 Mar 2010
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5558, longitude -1.83178, in the SN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lydiard, Freshbrook & Toothill, Swindon, SN5 8PQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201054DW06710
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 2005.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 27 June 2005
14 m awayRef 200554DW25805
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 19 May 2004
41 m awayRef 200454DW25404
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 13 May 1991
45 m awayRef 199154DN02801
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 29 August 2011
54 m awayRef 2011547481411
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 11 November 1984
63 m awayRef 198454DN06464
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 27 January 1983
63 m awayRef 198354DN00383
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201054DW06710 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.