Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA80 on 17 April 2015 at 13:50 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swansea at 13:50 on Friday 17 April 2015. The 28-year-old female driver of the car and the 35-year-old male driver of the van were 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
- 17 Apr 2015
- Friday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64635, longitude -3.92621, in the SA80 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Morriston, Swansea, SA6 8HP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015621500764
- 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
- Rural
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 46 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 2014.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 21 January 2014
46 m awayRef 2014621400181
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 45 crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 24 December 2008
60 m awayRef 2008620185822
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4603 in Swansea, 23 November 1996
74 m awayRef 199662J046496
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 29 January 2003
176 m awayRef 2003620076760
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 30 March 2004
190 m awayRef 2004620106188
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 26 November 2010
190 m awayRef 2010620205227
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)
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 2015621500764 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.