A4259 crash in Swindon on 2 December 2014 at 16:19 involving a Mini One
A motorcycle, a car and a Mini One were involved in a crash on the A4259 in Swindon at 16:19 on Tuesday 2 December 2014. The 32-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 16:19
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mini One and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55833, longitude -1.76109, in the SN3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Walcot, Swindon, SN3 1BN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201454A843714
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4259
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 1983.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A345 in Swindon, 2 February 1983
4 m awayRef 198354DS00783
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 22 November 1985
6 m awayRef 198554DS12145
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 27 December 2002
6 m awayRef 200254DE78502
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 8 April 2004
6 m awayRef 200454DE17904
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4259 in Swindon, 6 July 2007
6 m awayRef 200754DE28307
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A345 in Swindon, 20 November 1980
6 m awayRef 198054DD13700
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Mini One
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 201454A843714 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.