A4155 crash in Reading on 9 January 1980 at 17:45 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4155 in Reading at 17:45 on Wednesday 9 January 1980. The 57-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jan 1980
- Wednesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45181, longitude -0.97948, in the RG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Reading.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198043E019010
- Council area
- Reading
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4155
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 1990.
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A4155 in Reading, 16 June 1990
10 m awayRef 199043E059060
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4155 in Reading, 14 December 1994
10 m awayRef 199443W046124
Serious
Car crash on the A4155 in Reading, 9 April 1982
10 m awayRef 198243E034042
Slight
Car crash on the A4155 in Reading, 8 October 2025
14 m awayRef 2025430514383
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4155 in Reading, 16 October 2025
14 m awayRef 2025430531450
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4155 in Reading, 17 September 2025
14 m awayRef 2025430475971
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 57, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198043E019010 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Reading road accident statistics for 1980.