A4289 crash in Swindon on 3 December 2015 at 11:30 involving a Hyundai i10
A Hyundai i10 and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A4289 in Swindon at 11:30 on Thursday 3 December 2015. The 38-year-old female driver of the Hyundai i10 and a 22-year-old male passenger in the taxi were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai i10 and taxi
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55232, longitude -1.78628, in the SN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kingshill, Swindon, SN1 3PY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swindon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201554B003015
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4289
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 November 2019.
Serious
Mazda 323 crash on the A4289 in Swindon, 27 November 2019
6 m awayRef 201954B769219
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A429 in Swindon, 25 October 2023
6 m awayRef 202354B305623
Slight
Car crash on the A4289 in Swindon, 6 October 1988
6 m awayRef 198854DS02738
Slight
Car crash on the A4289 in Swindon, 9 July 1986
6 m awayRef 198654DS07516
Slight
Car crash on the A4289 in Swindon, 16 November 1984
6 m awayRef 198454DS11634
Slight
Car crash on the B4289 in Swindon, 13 September 1979
8 m awayRef 197954DD10319
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i10
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i10)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 201554B003015 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.