Unclassified road crash in Swindon SN3 on 29 April 2025 at 19:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on an unclassified road in Swindon at 19:00 on Tuesday 29 April 2025. The 18-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were 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
- 29 Apr 2025
- Tuesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54793, longitude -1.74843, in the SN3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Parks, Swindon, SN3 2DF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025545168825
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 53 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 September 1987.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 4 September 1987
53 m awayRef 198754DS07607
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 26 October 1998
60 m awayRef 199854DS06718
Slight
Reliant Rialto crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 19 February 1993
69 m awayRef 199354DS00953
Slight
Kawasaki EX305 crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 27 June 1992
69 m awayRef 199254DS03672
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 17 December 2020
82 m awayRef 202054C491420
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 29 October 1979
116 m awayRef 197954DD12159
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 100 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 100 km
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 2025545168825 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 2025.