A329 crash in Reading on 15 February 1996 at 09:04 involving a Ford
A Ford and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A329 in Reading at 09:04 on Thursday 15 February 1996. The 26-year-old female 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 1996
- Thursday, 09:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45577, longitude -0.99061, in the RG30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Reading.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199643W037026
- 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
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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 26 June 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A329 in Reading, 26 June 1980
At the same spotRef 198043E080060
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A329 in Reading, 13 May 2002
At the same spotRef 200243W319052
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A329 in Reading, 19 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199643W062126
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A329 in Reading, 21 March 2022
6 m awayRef 2022430122326
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A329 in Reading, 16 October 2001
10 m awayRef 200143W399101
Serious
Car crash on the A329 in Reading, 12 December 2008
10 m awayRef 200843W204128
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford
Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 7,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 199643W037026 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 1996.