A48 crash in Swansea on 7 October 2019 at 08:02 involving a Volkswagen Golf
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2019
- Monday, 08:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66241, longitude -3.88368, in the SA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swansea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Llansamlet, Swansea, SA7 9BL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019621901582
- Council area
- Swansea
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 48
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 2020.
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the A48 in Swansea, 29 July 2020
8 m awayRef 2020622000801
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 11 July 1985
41 m awayRef 1985620H08620
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A48 in Swansea, 23 September 2002
47 m awayRef 2002620070104
Serious
Car crash on the A48 in Swansea, 7 February 1989
53 m awayRef 1989620H03630
Slight
Mazda 5 crash on the A48 in Swansea, 4 August 2017
53 m awayRef 2017621701184
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A48 in Swansea, 29 July 2014
56 m awayRef 2014621401400
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2019621901582 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 2019.