A327 crash in Wokingham on 7 May 1989 at 15:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A327 in Wokingham at 15:30 on Sunday 7 May 1989. The 68-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 67-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 May 1989
- Sunday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40574, longitude -0.94571, in the RG2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Shinfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198943E019059
- Council area
- Wokingham
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 327
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3349
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 October 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A327 in Wokingham, 17 October 1980
10 m awayRef 198043E079100
Slight
Car crash on the A327 in Wokingham, 19 November 1985
10 m awayRef 198543E103115
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A327 in Wokingham, 15 July 2016
13 m awayRef 201643W090076
Serious
Car crash on the A327 in Wokingham, 29 January 1981
14 m awayRef 198143E079011
Slight
Car crash on the A327 in Wokingham, 14 April 1983
14 m awayRef 198343E054043
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A327 in Wokingham, 16 December 2019
14 m awayRef 2019430394183
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 198943E019059 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 1989.