A313 crash in Swindon on 26 October 2017 at 12:36 involving a Mitsubishi Fuso Canter van
A Mitsubishi Fuso Canter van and a Mini First were involved in a crash on the A313 in Swindon at 12:36 on Thursday 26 October 2017. The 27-year-old female driver of the Mini First was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2017
- Thursday, 12:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi Fuso Canter and Mini First
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56457, longitude -1.7631, in the SN3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lower Stratton, Swindon, SN3 3SQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swindon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017549985017
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 313
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4312 in Swindon, 21 February 1997
17 m awayRef 199754DS01137
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4312 in Swindon, 26 July 1997
17 m awayRef 199754DS04947
Slight
Hyundai Pony crash on the A4312 in Swindon, 22 December 1995
17 m awayRef 199554DS07905
Slight
Talbot Alpine crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 29 April 1991
17 m awayRef 199154DS02661
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4312 in Swindon, 25 July 1996
17 m awayRef 199654DS04696
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A4312 in Swindon, 12 March 2019
30 m awayRef 2019542459819
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Fuso Canter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mini First
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini First)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017549985017 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 2017.