Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA5 on 8 August 2014 at 12:37 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swansea at 12:37 on Friday 8 August 2014. A 7-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Aug 2014
- Friday, 12:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63546, longitude -3.9522, in the SA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swansea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Swansea, SA1 2DF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014621401470
- Council area
- Swansea
- Police force
- South Wales
- 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
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 2006.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A483 in Swansea, 16 May 2006
7 m awayRef 2006620153709
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A483 in Swansea, 30 June 2010
7 m awayRef 2010620201522
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 3 March 2006
17 m awayRef 2006620149004
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A483 in Swansea, 13 December 1993
29 m awayRef 199362J038293
Slight
Opel Kadett crash on the A483 in Swansea, 30 September 1994
29 m awayRef 199462J030594
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 8 December 1987
29 m awayRef 1987620H34820
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2014621401470 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 2014.