A329 crash in Bracknell Forest on 26 August 1996 at 14:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A329 in Bracknell Forest at 14:00 on Monday 26 August 1996. The 21-year-old male driver and a female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 1996
- Monday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4092, longitude -0.79149, in the RG40 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199643R112086
- Council area
- Bracknell Forest
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 329
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 1995.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A329 in Bracknell Forest, 20 October 1995
10 m awayRef 199543R095105
Serious
BMW crash on the A329 in Bracknell Forest, 7 January 1994
20 m awayRef 199443R022014
Fatal
Ford Orion crash on the A329 in Bracknell Forest, 2 August 1993
22 m awayRef 199343R003083
Slight
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A329 in Bracknell Forest, 5 August 2000
30 m awayRef 200043W105080
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A329 in Bracknell Forest, 10 November 1990
30 m awayRef 199043C050110
Slight
Volvo 343 crash on the A329 in Bracknell Forest, 22 October 1994
32 m awayRef 199443R111104
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 199643R112086 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bracknell Forest road accident statistics for 1996.