A4118 crash in Swansea on 1 June 2025 at 00:39 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Honda Jazz were involved in a crash on the A4118 in Swansea at 00:39 on Sunday 1 June 2025. The 49-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jun 2025
- Sunday, 00:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Honda Jazz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61799, longitude -3.97132, in the SA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swansea.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025622500378
- Council area
- Swansea
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4118
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A4118 in Swansea, 4 July 2012
2 m awayRef 2012621200607
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A4118 in Swansea, 18 April 2005
2 m awayRef 2005620129830
Serious
Ford Transit Courier crash on the A4118 in Swansea, 7 April 2025
5 m awayRef 2025622500253
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A4118 in Swansea, 15 September 2014
7 m awayRef 2014621401699
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A4118 in Swansea, 1 March 2007
8 m awayRef 2007620164356
Slight
Car crash on the A4118 in Swansea, 4 March 2015
9 m awayRef 2015621500397
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,318 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 2025622500378 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 2025.