Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA6 on 15 July 2017 at 12:12 involving a Vauxhall Combo van
A Vauxhall Combo van and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swansea at 12:12 on Saturday 15 July 2017. The 42-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Combo van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 2017
- Saturday, 12:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Combo and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73988, longitude -3.92365, 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
- 2017621701093
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Raining, 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 419 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 2022.
Slight
Vauxhall Grandland crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 3 December 2022
419 m awayRef 2022622200958
Fatal
Volvo V50 crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 13 April 2017
532 m awayRef 2017621700600
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 21 December 2000
1.2 km awayRef 2000620029462
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 28 September 2013
1.2 km awayRef 2013621301782
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A4067 in Swansea, 16 January 1992
1.3 km awayRef 1992620M00300
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 14 December 2013
1.3 km awayRef 2013621302248
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Combo)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017621701093 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 2017.