Unclassified road crash in Swindon SN26 on 15 September 2013 at 16:12 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swindon at 16:12 on Sunday 15 September 2013. The 83-year-old male driver of the Renault Megane was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 2013
- Sunday, 16:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61329, longitude -1.77861, in the SN26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Broad Blunsdon.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013548794513
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 2022.
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Bus crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 19 July 1984
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 14 October 1985
81 m awayRef 198554DH03195
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 10 December 1986
81 m awayRef 198654DH03926
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Yamaha R6 crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 18 August 1999
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Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 25 December 2013
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,240 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 83, 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 2013548794513 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.