Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA1 on 5 December 2025 at 20:44 involving a Hyundai Getz
A Hyundai Getz hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swansea at 20:44 on Friday 5 December 2025. A 41-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2025
- Friday, 20:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai Getz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62406, longitude -3.94885, in the SA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swansea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Swansea, SA1 3EL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025622500804
- Council area
- Swansea
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 2001.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 20 November 2001
3 m awayRef 2001620049087
Slight
Ford Capri crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 1 April 1991
11 m awayRef 1991620H02180
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 15 March 1988
11 m awayRef 1988620H08240
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 14 February 1990
11 m awayRef 1990620H03800
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 29 June 1992
11 m awayRef 1992620H01360
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 11 May 1996
11 m awayRef 199662H010396
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Getz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,086 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Hyundai Getz)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025622500804 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.