Unclassified road crash in Bracknell Forest RG40 on 11 January 2000 at 19:25 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class crashed on an unclassified road in Bracknell Forest at 19:25 on Tuesday 11 January 2000. The 50-year-old female driver and a 53-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jan 2000
- Tuesday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39996, longitude -0.79849, in the RG40 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200043W264010
- Council area
- Bracknell Forest
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 April 1983.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bracknell Forest, 15 April 1983
22 m awayRef 198343C064043
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bracknell Forest, 25 December 1985
36 m awayRef 198543C136125
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Bracknell Forest, 24 September 1986
36 m awayRef 198643C095096
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bracknell Forest, 3 June 1984
45 m awayRef 198443C010064
Slight
Ford Puma crash on an unclassified road in Bracknell Forest, 14 October 2017
61 m awayRef 2017430315817
Slight
Porsche 911 crash on an unclassified road in Bracknell Forest, 2 January 2016
203 m awayRef 201643R139016
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- 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 200043W264010 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 2000.