A4311 crash in Swindon on 19 January 2016 at 15:32 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Nissan X-Trail were involved in a crash on the A4311 in Swindon at 15:32 on Tuesday 19 January 2016. The 28-year-old male driver of the Nissan X-Trail and a 58-year-old female passenger in the Nissan X-Trail were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jan 2016
- Tuesday, 15:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Nissan X-Trail
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59431, longitude -1.7773, in the SN2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penhill & Pinehurst, Swindon, SN2 5LZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016540578516
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 31 October 2016
1 m awayRef 2016549767016
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 7 January 2016
4 m awayRef 2016540562616
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 10 December 2024
5 m awayRef 202454E574224
Slight
Car crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 9 April 1988
6 m awayRef 198854DN00578
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 6 May 2012
6 m awayRef 2012543993212
Slight
Car crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 21 October 1985
6 m awayRef 198554DN06955
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan X-Trail
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan X-Trail)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan X-Trail)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016540578516 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 2016.