Unclassified road crash in Wokingham RG40 on 26 October 2012 at 19:52 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on an unclassified road in Wokingham at 19:52 on Friday 26 October 2012. The 19-year-old female driver was 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
- 26 Oct 2012
- Friday, 19:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40501, longitude -0.80957, in the RG40 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wokingham Without, Wokingham, RG40 3BZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wokingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201243R213102
- Council area
- Wokingham
- 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)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 February 2000.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 15 February 2000
10 m awayRef 200043W362020
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 24 January 2002
71 m awayRef 200243W543012
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 25 April 1980
99 m awayRef 198043E064040
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 17 December 2010
100 m awayRef 201043W173120
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 9 June 1989
122 m awayRef 198943E050069
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 6 June 1983
124 m awayRef 198343E023063
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 201243R213102 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wokingham road accident statistics for 2012.