C road crash in Swindon SN2 on 11 December 2011 at 12:47 involving a Mercedes Vito van
A Mercedes Vito van and a Volvo S60 were involved in a crash on a C road in Swindon at 12:47 on Sunday 11 December 2011. The 47-year-old male driver of the Volvo S60 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 2011
- Sunday, 12:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Vito and Volvo S60
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58373, longitude -1.81176, in the SN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rodbourne Cheney, Swindon, SN2 2LA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swindon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201154B004311
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 July 2001.
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Swindon, 3 July 2001
At the same spotRef 200154DN37801
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Swindon, 13 August 1982
10 m awayRef 198254DD08932
Slight
Scania crash on a C road in Swindon, 22 March 2010
14 m awayRef 201054DN07610
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Swindon, 12 October 1981
36 m awayRef 198154DD10881
Slight
Honda CRV crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 31 January 2006
40 m awayRef 200654DN05106
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Swindon, 30 July 1983
42 m awayRef 198354DN03793
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Vito
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo S60
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,401 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo S60)
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 201154B004311 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 2011.