Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA5 on 8 November 2013 at 16:10 involving a Mazda 323
A Mazda 323 and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swansea at 16:10 on Friday 8 November 2013. The 55-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 2013
- Friday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 323 and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65052, longitude -3.9544, in the SA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swansea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penderry, Swansea, SA5 7EY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013621302016
- Council area
- Swansea
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- 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, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 August 2002.
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 18 August 2002
22 m awayRef 2002620067342
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 17 June 2011
30 m awayRef 2011620209733
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 17 September 1999
50 m awayRef 199962J027399
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 10 January 1995
51 m awayRef 199562J000695
Serious
Kawasaki crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 16 April 1990
51 m awayRef 1990620H15410
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 12 June 1982
51 m awayRef 1982620J02020
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Open door of vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2013621302016 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 2013.