Serious unclassified road crash in Wokingham RG7 on 18 December 1987 at 02:05 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham at 02:05 on Friday 18 December 1987. The 29-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Dec 1987
- Friday, 02:05
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39133, longitude -1.00396, in the RG7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198743E081127
- Council area
- Wokingham
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 17 September 1986
10 m awayRef 198643E088096
Slight
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14 m awayRef 200143W465031
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 29 November 1979
22 m awayRef 197943E114119
Slight
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30 m awayRef 201443W131024
Slight
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33 m awayRef 2025430504019
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 21 December 1979
41 m awayRef 197943E086129
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 198743E081127 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 1987.