M4 crash in Windsor and Maidenhead on 1 October 2012 at 08:29 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the M4 in Windsor and Maidenhead at 08:29 on Monday 1 October 2012. The 47-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 2012
- Monday, 08:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48692, longitude -0.56013, in the SL3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Datchet, Horton & Wraysbury, Windsor and Maidenhead, SL3 7HZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Windsor and Maidenhead
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201243R032102
- Council area
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 August 2016.
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the M4 in Windsor and Maidenhead, 22 August 2016
5 m awayRef 2016430246788
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M4 in Windsor and Maidenhead, 19 July 2012
10 m awayRef 201243R167072
Serious
Honda ST1100A crash on the M4 in Windsor and Maidenhead, 9 October 2005
10 m awayRef 200543W409105
Slight
Volvo crash on the M4 in Windsor and Maidenhead, 14 February 2024
16 m awayRef 2024430071312
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the M4 in Windsor and Maidenhead, 16 April 2002
20 m awayRef 200243W306042
Slight
Hyundai Tucson crash on the M4 in Windsor and Maidenhead, 26 December 2024
26 m awayRef 2024430624143
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,649 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 47, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 201243R032102 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Windsor and Maidenhead road accident statistics for 2012.