B376 crash in Windsor and Maidenhead on 5 December 1996 at 19:20 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Vauxhall Carlton were involved in a crash on the B376 in Windsor and Maidenhead at 19:20 on Thursday 5 December 1996. The 24-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Carlton was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 1996
- Thursday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Vauxhall Carlton
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48436, longitude -0.58111, in the SL3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Datchet.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199643R026126
- Council area
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 376
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 October 2018.
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on an unclassified road in Windsor and Maidenhead, 18 October 2018
9 m awayRef 2018430325953
Slight
Car crash on the B376 in Windsor and Maidenhead, 24 September 1979
10 m awayRef 197943C107099
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Windsor and Maidenhead, 15 May 2025
10 m awayRef 2025430238536
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B376 in Windsor and Maidenhead, 30 July 2023
10 m awayRef 2023430345469
Slight
Car crash on the B376 in Windsor and Maidenhead, 4 January 2025
11 m awayRef 2025430004837
Slight
Car crash on the B376 in Windsor and Maidenhead, 18 January 2004
14 m awayRef 200443W345014
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Carlton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Carlton)
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 199643R026126 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Windsor and Maidenhead road accident statistics for 1996.