Unclassified road crash in Reading RG2 on 6 January 1989 at 20:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Reading at 20:00 on Friday 6 January 1989. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jan 1989
- Friday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44735, longitude -0.97281, in the RG2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Reading.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198943E019019
- 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
- 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 March 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 3 March 1985
10 m awayRef 198543E008035
Serious
Aprilia crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 2 March 2000
10 m awayRef 200043W020030
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 3 November 2025
11 m awayRef 2025430561793
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 15 March 1985
14 m awayRef 198543E044035
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 21 April 2007
14 m awayRef 200743W212047
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 20 September 1982
22 m awayRef 198243E068092
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 198943E019019 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 1989.