A419 crash in Swindon on 16 December 2018 at 22:34 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Land Rover Range Rover Sport were involved in a crash on the A419 in Swindon at 22:34 on Sunday 16 December 2018. The 32-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2018
- Sunday, 22:34
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Land Rover Range Rover Sport
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5589, longitude -1.71932, in the SN3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Badbury Park, Eldene & Liden, Swindon, SN3 5JX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201854B898618
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 November 2017.
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the A419 in Swindon, 30 November 2017
8 m awayRef 201754B203317
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A419 in Swindon, 11 November 2015
17 m awayRef 201554A166815
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A419 in Swindon, 27 October 2009
28 m awayRef 200954DE38409
Serious
Van crash on the A419 in Swindon, 21 October 1988
49 m awayRef 198854DS03018
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A419 in Swindon, 26 April 1990
56 m awayRef 199054DS01170
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A419 in Swindon, 12 February 1995
56 m awayRef 199554DS01045
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover Sport
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201854B898618 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.