A4311 crash in Swindon on 29 January 2018 at 17:10 involving a van
A van and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A4311 in Swindon at 17:10 on Monday 29 January 2018. The 56-year-old male driver of the other vehicle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jan 2018
- Monday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58229, longitude -1.77546, in the SN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penhill & Pinehurst, Swindon, SN2 1AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swindon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018540936818
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 2004.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 23 June 2004
10 m awayRef 200454DN31204
Slight
Jaguar XE Series crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 20 July 2023
11 m awayRef 2023547703023
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 20 December 2018
11 m awayRef 201854C037218
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 13 November 2002
12 m awayRef 200254DN68202
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the A4311 in Swindon, 8 September 2000
12 m awayRef 200054DN47500
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A345 in Swindon, 22 March 1979
12 m awayRef 197954DD03279
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 233 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018540936818 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 2018.