A329 crash in Reading on 22 January 1999 at 19:15 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A329 in Reading at 19:15 on Friday 22 January 1999. The 35-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 1999
- Friday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Orion and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46184, longitude -1.01279, in the RG30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Reading.
Map of where the crash happened in Reading
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199943W274019
- Council area
- Reading
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 7 December 2009.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A329 in Reading, 7 December 2009
At the same spotRef 200943W124129
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A329 in Reading, 2 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199943W042079
Slight
BMW X3 crash on the A329 in Reading, 7 October 2016
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Peugeot 308 crash on the A329 in Reading, 10 August 2023
6 m awayRef 2023430356647
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Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A329 in Reading, 13 November 2025
7 m awayRef 2025430580838
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A329 in Reading, 29 January 2016
9 m awayRef 201643W186016
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, 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 199943W274019 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 1999.