A419 crash in Swindon on 9 December 2018 at 12:44 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and a car were involved in a crash on the A419 in Swindon at 12:44 on Sunday 9 December 2018. The 35-year-old female driver of the car and a 47-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2018
- Sunday, 12:44
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53619, longitude -1.72304, in the SN3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201854B653618
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 419
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4192
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 2014.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A419 in Swindon, 24 July 2014
21 m awayRef 2014546707214
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A419 in Swindon, 17 November 2013
34 m awayRef 201354A967213
Slight
Volvo crash on the A419 in Swindon, 2 April 1998
43 m awayRef 199854DS01878
Slight
Car crash on the A345 in Swindon, 12 June 1979
43 m awayRef 197954DW01679
Slight
Car crash on the A345 in Swindon, 28 January 1983
43 m awayRef 198354DS00793
Slight
Nissan Patrol crash on the A419 in Swindon, 7 September 1995
43 m awayRef 199554DS05435
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 201854B653618 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.