A329 crash in Reading on 25 October 1993 at 15:40 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A329 in Reading at 15:40 on Monday 25 October 1993. The 48-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 1993
- Monday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45547, longitude -0.9863, in the RG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Reading.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199343W074103
- Council area
- Reading
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 329
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 1992.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A329 in Reading, 18 March 1992
At the same spotRef 199243W030032
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A329 in Reading, 9 November 2007
At the same spotRef 200743W183117
Slight
Bus crash on the A329 in Reading, 5 May 2015
3 m awayRef 201543W018055
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A329 in Reading, 4 October 2025
3 m awayRef 2025430507228
Slight
HGV crash on the A329 in Reading, 17 December 2014
4 m awayRef 201443W168124
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A329 in Reading, 1 February 2025
7 m awayRef 2025430053291
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,588 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 199343W074103 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 1993.