M4 crash in Slough on 12 October 2012 at 15:50 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra, a Jaguar XF Series and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the M4 in Slough at 15:50 on Friday 12 October 2012. The 44-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2012
- Friday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Astra and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49166, longitude -0.54313, in the SL3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Langley Foxborough, Slough, SL3 8UQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Slough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201243R080102
- Council area
- Slough
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the M4 in Slough, 3 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198843C030038
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the M4 in Slough, 3 November 2013
1 m awayRef 201343R044113
Serious
Yamaha MT crash on the M4 in Slough, 17 August 2025
5 m awayRef 2025430419696
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Slough, 6 June 1987
10 m awayRef 198743C069067
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Slough, 3 April 1987
10 m awayRef 198743C015047
Slight
Porsche Boxster crash on the M4 in Slough, 19 February 2011
10 m awayRef 201143R219021
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Jaguar XF Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 201243R080102 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Slough road accident statistics for 2012.