A4311 crash in Swindon on 27 September 2016 at 08:24 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4311 in Swindon at 08:24 on Tuesday 27 September 2016. The 57-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 2016
- Tuesday, 08:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59205, longitude -1.77453, in the SN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stratton St Margaret. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penhill & Pinehurst, Swindon, SN2 5LZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swindon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016548737716
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 29 June 2016.
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 29 June 2016
1 m awayRef 2016545825316
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 20 January 2023
1 m awayRef 2023540687923
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 5 October 2015
2 m awayRef 2015548994115
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 7 August 2020
3 m awayRef 2020547848920
Slight
Car crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 23 January 1986
4 m awayRef 198654DN00636
Fatal
Car crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 24 July 1986
4 m awayRef 198654DN04756
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- 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
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 649 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 57, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least 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 2016548737716 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.