Unclassified road crash in Reading RG30 on 3 February 2000 at 08:20 involving a Toyota Carina taxi
A Toyota Carina taxi crashed on an unclassified road in Reading at 08:20 on Thursday 3 February 2000. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Feb 2000
- Thursday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Carina
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44129, longitude -1.01668, 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
- 200043W004020
- Council area
- Reading
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 2020.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Carina
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 10, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Carina)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 8, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Carina)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 7, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Carina)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 6, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Carina)
- 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 200043W004020 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 2000.