Serious A3095 crash in Bracknell Forest on 12 September 1979 at 14:19 involving a car
A car crashed on the A3095 in Bracknell Forest at 14:19 on Wednesday 12 September 1979. The 26-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Sep 1979
- Wednesday, 14:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45347, longitude -0.75089, in the RG42 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bracknell Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197943C045099
- Council area
- Bracknell Forest
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3095
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A3095 in Bracknell Forest, 19 May 1988
20 m awayRef 198843C077058
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3095 in Bracknell Forest, 3 August 1990
22 m awayRef 199043C011080
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A3095 in Bracknell Forest, 17 December 1993
36 m awayRef 199343R072123
Slight
Car crash on the A3095 in Bracknell Forest, 20 September 1983
41 m awayRef 198343C107093
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A3095 in Bracknell Forest, 8 October 1992
45 m awayRef 199243R021102
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A3095 in Bracknell Forest, 6 October 1994
45 m awayRef 199443R053104
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 197943C045099 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bracknell Forest road accident statistics for 1979.