M4 crash in Slough on 18 March 2012 at 16:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra, a Fiat 500 and a Ford Kuga were involved in a crash on the M4 in Slough at 16:00 on Sunday 18 March 2012. The 26-year-old female driver of the Fiat 500 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
- 18 Mar 2012
- Sunday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Astra and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49398, longitude -0.50575, in the SL0 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Colnbrook & Poyle, Slough, SL3 0ED area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Slough
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201243R092032
- Council area
- Slough
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 2014.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the M4 in Slough, 6 February 2014
3 m awayRef 201443R198024
Slight
Car crash on the M4 in Slough, 17 April 2017
4 m awayRef 2017430114391
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the M4 in Slough, 8 June 2002
10 m awayRef 200243W140062
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the M4 in Slough, 4 November 2001
10 m awayRef 200143W102111
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the M4 in Slough, 16 May 2010
22 m awayRef 201043R234050
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the M4 in Slough, 23 October 2014
23 m awayRef 201443R243104
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Ford Kuga
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat 500)
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 201243R092032 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.