A483 crash in Swansea on 27 December 2025 at 18:40 involving a Vauxhall Viva
A Vauxhall Viva and a BMW 1 Series were involved in a crash on the A483 in Swansea at 18:40 on Saturday 27 December 2025. The 26-year-old female driver of the BMW 1 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2025
- Saturday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Viva and BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62676, longitude -3.93897, 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
- 2025622600012
- Council area
- Swansea
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 483
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 2019.
Slight
MAN crash on the A483 in Swansea, 4 October 2019
2 m awayRef 2019621901285
Serious
Ford Kuga crash on the A483 in Swansea, 19 October 2022
2 m awayRef 2022622200796
Slight
Hyundai i20 crash on the A483 in Swansea, 21 April 2023
4 m awayRef 2023622300343
Serious
Seddon/Atkinson crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 9 June 1999
6 m awayRef 199962H015499
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A483 in Swansea, 7 October 2005
6 m awayRef 2005620140228
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A483 in Swansea, 15 October 2017
7 m awayRef 2017621701431
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Viva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 1 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 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 2025622600012 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.