Unclassified road crash in Wokingham RG7 on 29 November 1979 at 12:25 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Wokingham at 12:25 on Thursday 29 November 1979. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Nov 1979
- Thursday, 12:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39115, longitude -1.00382, in the RG7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wokingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197943E114119
- Council area
- Wokingham
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2001.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 21 March 2001
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Slight
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 18 December 1987
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Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 18 February 2014
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 21 December 1979
42 m awayRef 197943E086129
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 2 October 2025
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, 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 197943E114119 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wokingham road accident statistics for 1979.