Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA1 on 5 February 2010 at 22:00 involving a Citroen AX
A Citroen AX crashed on an unclassified road in Swansea at 22:00 on Friday 5 February 2010. A 20-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Feb 2010
- Friday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen AX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62631, longitude -3.93399, in the SA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swansea. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Thomas, Swansea, SA1 8EU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010620197907
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A4217 in Swansea, 13 July 1985
36 m awayRef 1985620H08590
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 15 October 1995
36 m awayRef 199562H019795
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A483 in Swansea, 21 June 1991
36 m awayRef 1991620H04660
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4217 in Swansea, 21 November 2002
60 m awayRef 2002620073179
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A4217 in Swansea, 30 January 2010
61 m awayRef 2010620197737
Fatal
MG ZR crash on the A4217 in Swansea, 10 October 2019
62 m awayRef 2019622000036
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen AX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 954 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen AX)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2010620197907 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 2010.