Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA1 on 3 June 2020 at 11:27 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on an unclassified road in Swansea at 11:27 on Wednesday 3 June 2020. A 76-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jun 2020
- Wednesday, 11:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63185, longitude -3.9742, in the SA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swansea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cockett, Swansea, SA1 6SB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020622000516
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 2016.
Slight
Nissan Note crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 9 January 2016
23 m awayRef 2016621600133
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 2 July 2007
26 m awayRef 2007620168598
Serious
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 19 May 2012
30 m awayRef 2012621200421
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 18 January 2008
31 m awayRef 2008620175908
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 11 October 2004
32 m awayRef 2004620118859
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 13 May 2004
34 m awayRef 2004620108831
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2020622000516 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 2020.