A4240 crash in Swansea on 2 September 2011 at 16:50 involving a Ford Focus
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Sep 2011
- Friday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66869, longitude -4.01259, in the SA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Penllergaer.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011620211340
- Council area
- Swansea
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4240
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 August 2018.
Serious
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A4240 in Swansea, 20 August 2018
5 m awayRef 2018621801064
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 21 May 2025
6 m awayRef 2025622500388
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4620 in Swansea, 4 January 2012
10 m awayRef 2012620213990
Slight
Aprilia SR 50 crash on the A4240 in Swansea, 19 January 2007
10 m awayRef 2007620163439
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4240 in Swansea, 2 January 2001
14 m awayRef 2001620028607
Serious
Mercedes 300 crash on the A4240 in Swansea, 15 February 2008
22 m awayRef 2008620177230
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 64, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2011620211340 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 2011.