Unclassified road crash in Wokingham RG40 on 8 December 1989 at 08:45 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham at 08:45 on Friday 8 December 1989. The 16-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 1989
- Friday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41325, longitude -0.81871, in the RG40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wokingham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198943E045129
- Council area
- Wokingham
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 25 March 1986
14 m awayRef 198643E080036
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 26 June 1986
14 m awayRef 198643E094066
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 18 May 1981
22 m awayRef 198143E067051
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 11 November 2023
46 m awayRef 2023430511423
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 18 April 2011
50 m awayRef 201143W106041
Slight
Vauxhall Belmont crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 9 July 1996
51 m awayRef 199643R142076
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198943E045129 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.