Serious A419 crash in Swindon on 12 November 2014 at 08:33 involving a Citroen Relay van
A Citroen Relay van and an Iveco lorry were involved in a crash on the A419 in Swindon at 08:33 on Wednesday 12 November 2014. The 50-year-old male driver of the Citroen Relay van was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Nov 2014
- Wednesday, 08:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Relay and Iveco
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54952, longitude -1.72087, in the SN3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Swindon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201454A136514
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 2016.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A419 in Swindon, 2 May 2016
16 m awayRef 2016543894616
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A419 in Swindon, 28 April 2016
21 m awayRef 2016543747516
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A419 in Swindon, 24 March 2002
34 m awayRef 200254DS19302
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A419 in Swindon, 28 June 2005
44 m awayRef 200554DH25905
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A419 in Swindon, 8 August 2006
45 m awayRef 200654DH38706
Serious
Car crash on the A419 in Swindon, 27 April 1982
46 m awayRef 198254DD04672
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Relay
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Iveco
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,920 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 50, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Relay)
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 201454A136514 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.