Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA6 on 31 July 2015 at 19:16 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and an agricultural vehicle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swansea at 19:16 on Friday 31 July 2015. The 24-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 2015
- Friday, 19:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and agricultural vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71294, longitude -3.9246, in the SA6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015621501314
- 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
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 September 1979.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 9 September 1979
2 m awayRef 1979620H03310
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 3 May 1993
278 m awayRef 199362M010593
Serious
Daewoo Nexia crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 29 May 2003
287 m awayRef 2003620084313
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 20 September 2008
354 m awayRef 2008620183463
Slight
Dacia Duster crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 16 June 2017
366 m awayRef 2017621700949
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 3 July 1997
371 m awayRef 199762J023197
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Agricultural vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (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 2015621501314 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.