A361 crash in Swindon on 16 April 2013 at 18:05 involving a Renault Megane
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2013
- Tuesday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62563, longitude -1.71269, in the SN6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Highworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Highworth, Swindon, SN6 7AG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013543552313
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 April 2015.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A361 in Swindon, 28 April 2015
11 m awayRef 2015543701215
Serious
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A361 in Swindon, 13 November 2016
15 m awayRef 201654A193516
Fatal
Honda Civic crash on the A361 in Swindon, 31 July 1998
18 m awayRef 199854DH04648
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A361 in Swindon, 25 September 1995
18 m awayRef 199554DH05905
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A361 in Swindon, 30 March 2003
58 m awayRef 200354DH14103
Slight
Morris Marina crash on the A361 in Swindon, 18 February 1990
87 m awayRef 199054DH00170
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
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 2013543552313 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.