Unclassified road crash in Swindon SN4 on 3 July 2015 at 18:01 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swindon at 18:01 on Friday 3 July 2015. A 7-year-old male 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
- 3 Jul 2015
- Friday, 18:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5254, longitude -1.79573, in the SN4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wroughton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wroughton & Wichelstowe, Swindon, SN4 9AR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015545934315
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 February 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 12 February 1984
23 m awayRef 198454DS01484
Serious
Renault Modus crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 21 October 2024
35 m awayRef 202454C781224
Slight
Alfa Romeo Giulietta crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 9 December 2021
61 m awayRef 202154C026221
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 29 October 1989
68 m awayRef 198954DS03129
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 5 February 2013
75 m awayRef 2013541147713
Serious
Hyundai Pony crash on the B4005 in Swindon, 30 December 1990
79 m awayRef 199054DS03950
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2015545934315 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.