Unclassified road crash in Wokingham RG6 on 14 December 1982 at 18:50 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham at 18:50 on Tuesday 14 December 1982. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 14 Dec 1982
- Tuesday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45121, longitude -0.93214, in the RG6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Reading.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198243E062122
- Council area
- Wokingham
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 2021.
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 26 October 2021
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Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 15 June 1988
45 m awayRef 198843E043068
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 2 October 1985
50 m awayRef 198543E011105
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 29 October 1983
54 m awayRef 198343E142103
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 19 February 1979
63 m awayRef 197943E053029
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 20 October 1994
63 m awayRef 199443W055104
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, 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 198243E062122 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 1982.