A4259 crash in Swindon on 15 April 2011 at 19:02 involving a Nissan Qashqai
A motorcycle and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on the A4259 in Swindon at 19:02 on Friday 15 April 2011. The 38-year-old female driver of the Nissan Qashqai 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
- 15 Apr 2011
- Friday, 19:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56739, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Swindon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201154DC12811
- 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
- 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 22 February 2002.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 22 February 2002
At the same spotRef 200254DS13302
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 7 July 2025
7 m awayRef 2025541624556
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4289 in Swindon, 22 August 2024
8 m awayRef 2024549936624
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 11 December 2010
10 m awayRef 201054DC39210
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 18 March 2000
10 m awayRef 200054DS17600
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 12 December 1999
10 m awayRef 199954DS69199
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Qashqai)
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 201154DC12811 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.