Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA6 on 26 January 2015 at 18:44 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swansea at 18:44 on Monday 26 January 2015. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 2015
- Monday, 18:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6627, longitude -3.92553, in the SA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swansea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Morriston, Swansea, SA6 8EF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015621500280
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 2009.
Slight
Volvo crash on the B4603 in Swansea, 12 November 2009
11 m awayRef 2009620195654
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Alexander Dennis crash on the B4603 in Swansea, 23 November 2005
13 m awayRef 2005620143859
Slight
Car crash on the B4603 in Swansea, 26 August 2004
17 m awayRef 2004620115876
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Car crash on the B4603 in Swansea, 2 March 2017
29 m awayRef 2017621700343
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Ford Escort crash on the B4603 in Swansea, 5 December 2003
33 m awayRef 2003620098177
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4603 in Swansea, 2 January 2004
33 m awayRef 2004620100772
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2015621500280 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 2015.