Unclassified road crash in Reading RG4 on 23 July 1981 at 08:04 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Reading at 08:04 on Thursday 23 July 1981. The 32-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 1981
- Thursday, 08:04
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48342, longitude -0.95458, in the RG4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Caversham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198143E084071
- Council area
- Reading
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 2 February 1988
41 m awayRef 198843E032028
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 7 May 1985
80 m awayRef 198543E020055
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 9 October 1987
81 m awayRef 198743E046107
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 9 May 1990
90 m awayRef 199043E056050
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 24 February 2005
91 m awayRef 200543W382025
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 16 March 2021
128 m awayRef 2021430110783
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198143E084071 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 1981.