Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA3 on 4 August 2012 at 12:10 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Land Rover Freelander were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swansea at 12:10 on Saturday 4 August 2012. The 70-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Aug 2012
- Saturday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57462, longitude -4.04942, in the SA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bishopston.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012621200729
- 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
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 August 1990.
Slight
Talbot Alpine crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 4 August 1990
22 m awayRef 1990620H59280
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 24 March 1983
92 m awayRef 1983620J04700
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 22 February 2007
100 m awayRef 2007620164182
Slight
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 25 April 2008
104 m awayRef 2008620179220
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 1 April 1985
112 m awayRef 1985620J03790
Slight
Audi crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 22 October 1997
112 m awayRef 199762H038197
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2012621200729 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 2012.