Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA1 on 9 August 2025 at 10:53 involving a Dacia Sandero
A Dacia Sandero crashed on an unclassified road in Swansea at 10:53 on Saturday 9 August 2025. The 72-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Aug 2025
- Saturday, 10:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dacia Sandero
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61848, longitude -3.9611, in the SA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swansea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Uplands, Swansea, SA1 4JU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025622500571
- 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
- 20 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2013.
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Honda Civic crash on the A4118 in Swansea, 1 February 2013
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Ford Fiesta crash on the A4118 in Swansea, 8 May 2006
15 m awayRef 2006620153631
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Renault crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 30 September 2005
17 m awayRef 2005620139872
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Car crash on the A4118 in Swansea, 16 January 1986
18 m awayRef 1986620H00950
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Mazda 323 crash on the A4118 in Swansea, 31 January 2010
23 m awayRef 2010620197784
Slight
Car crash on the A4118 in Swansea, 8 September 1980
23 m awayRef 1980620H02620
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dacia Sandero
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 898 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dacia Sandero)
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 2025622500571 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.