A4311 crash in Swindon on 19 November 2015 at 08:46 involving a Mercedes B Class
A Mercedes B Class and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4311 in Swindon at 08:46 on Thursday 19 November 2015. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 2015
- Thursday, 08:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes B Class and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59291, longitude -1.7751, in the SN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stratton St Margaret. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penhill & Pinehurst, Swindon, SN2 5LZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swindon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201554A551815
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4311
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 July 2022.
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 1 July 2022
2 m awayRef 2022546862722
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 4 May 2022
2 m awayRef 2022544538822
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 21 November 2014
3 m awayRef 201454A441914
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 7 May 2015
4 m awayRef 2015543966815
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 11 March 2025
4 m awayRef 2025543046725
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 6 March 1988
7 m awayRef 198854DN00358
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes B Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 201554A551815 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.