Unclassified road crash in Swindon SN5 on 27 March 2013 at 03:43 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class crashed on an unclassified road in Swindon at 03:43 on Wednesday 27 March 2013. The 28-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Mar 2013
- Wednesday, 03:43
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55283, longitude -1.83681, in the SN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lydiard, Freshbrook & Toothill, Swindon, SN5 8PQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013542892013
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- 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
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 1992.
Slight
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 13 April 1992
16 m awayRef 199254DN02122
Slight
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 5 July 2003
41 m awayRef 200354DW31903
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 12 May 1990
89 m awayRef 199054DN00990
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 11 March 1994
89 m awayRef 199454DN01744
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 4 April 1996
90 m awayRef 199654DN02056
Serious
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 17 June 1992
113 m awayRef 199254DN03492
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- 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
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
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 2013542892013 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 2013.