B3345 crash in Reading on 19 December 1996 at 13:00 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla, a Ford Probe and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the B3345 in Reading at 13:00 on Thursday 19 December 1996. A 38-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 1996
- Thursday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Toyota Corolla and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46088, longitude -0.9679, in the RG1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Reading
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199643W061126
- Council area
- Reading
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3345
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 1996.
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the B3345 in Reading, 30 September 1996
At the same spotRef 199643W082096
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the B3345 in Reading, 15 October 1994
At the same spotRef 199443W029104
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the B3345 in Reading, 4 December 1993
At the same spotRef 199343W016123
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B3345 in Reading, 9 June 2015
7 m awayRef 201543W081065
Slight
Lorry crash on the B3345 in Reading, 14 April 1988
10 m awayRef 198843E106048
Slight
Car crash on the B3345 in Reading, 28 October 1986
10 m awayRef 198643E122106
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,295 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Probe
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- 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 199643W061126 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.