A419 crash in Swindon on 13 August 2014 at 01:28 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Honda Civic were involved in a crash on the A419 in Swindon at 01:28 on Wednesday 13 August 2014. The 21-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and the 63-year-old female driver of the Honda Civic were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Aug 2014
- Wednesday, 01:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5601, longitude -1.71928, in the SN3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Swindon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014547315314
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 419
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, no street lighting
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 2024.
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A419 in Swindon, 26 November 2024
50 m awayRef 202454D993824
Serious
Car crash on the A419 in Swindon, 22 May 1979
62 m awayRef 197954DW01539
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A419 in Swindon, 8 January 2007
87 m awayRef 200754DH01207
Slight
Car crash on the A419 in Swindon, 16 January 1979
88 m awayRef 197954DW00159
Serious
Lorry crash on the A419 in Swindon, 31 August 1984
96 m awayRef 198454DS08664
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A419 in Swindon, 27 November 1998
96 m awayRef 199854DS07938
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
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 2014547315314 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 2014.