Serious A321 crash in Wokingham on 29 January 1982 at 21:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A321 in Wokingham at 21:45 on Friday 29 January 1982. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Jan 1982
- Friday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50072, longitude -0.87033, in the RG10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wargrave.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198243E079012
- Council area
- Wokingham
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 321
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 477
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 3 October 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A321 in Wokingham, 3 October 1985
10 m awayRef 198543E016105
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A321 in Wokingham, 14 October 2014
14 m awayRef 201443W122104
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A321 in Wokingham, 12 September 1984
14 m awayRef 198443E052094
Slight
Car crash on the A321 in Wokingham, 27 April 1979
14 m awayRef 197943E082049
Slight
Car crash on the A321 in Wokingham, 13 March 1982
14 m awayRef 198243E080032
Serious
Audi Rio crash on the A321 in Wokingham, 16 July 2018
15 m awayRef 2018430217110
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 198243E079012 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.