Serious unclassified road crash in Swindon SN3 on 10 January 2015 at 13:00 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swindon at 13:00 on Saturday 10 January 2015. A 62-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Jan 2015
- Saturday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57773, longitude -1.74574, in the SN3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stratton St Margaret. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lower Stratton, Swindon, SN3 4HY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swindon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015540341815
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- 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
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Weather
- Fine with 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 1988.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Swindon, 24 June 1988
6 m awayRef 198854DN01138
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 3 February 1987
6 m awayRef 198754DN00837
Serious
Volvo C70 crash on a C road in Swindon, 1 November 2009
11 m awayRef 200954DE39609
Serious
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 6 January 2001
12 m awayRef 200154DN00901
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 19 June 2007
18 m awayRef 200754DE25707
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Swindon, 9 October 1984
19 m awayRef 198454DN05714
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 62, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2015540341815 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 2015.