Serious B3430 crash in Wokingham on 15 May 1986 at 21:35 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B3430 in Wokingham at 21:35 on Thursday 15 May 1986. The 19-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was seriously injured and a 15-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 and an 11-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 May 1986
- Thursday, 21:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38301, longitude -0.80641, in the RG40 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198643C067056
- Council area
- Wokingham
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3430
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 2008.
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B3430 in Wokingham, 11 May 2008
At the same spotRef 200843W091058
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B3430 in Wokingham, 28 June 2001
At the same spotRef 200143W601061
Serious
Car crash on the B3430 in Wokingham, 25 November 2023
8 m awayRef 2023430530412
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B3430 in Wokingham, 19 December 1994
10 m awayRef 199443R104124
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 30 May 1980
10 m awayRef 198043E084050
Serious
Lorry crash on the B3430 in Wokingham, 20 May 1989
10 m awayRef 198943E085059
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198643C067056 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 1986.