Unclassified road crash in West Berkshire RG17 on 5 November 2012 at 13:37 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Berkshire at 13:37 on Monday 5 November 2012. The 20-year-old male driver of the Nissan Micra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2012
- Monday, 13:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48914, longitude -1.48362, in the RG17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Berkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201243W040112
- Council area
- West Berkshire
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 March 1991.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in West Berkshire, 8 March 1991
10 m awayRef 199143O001791
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Berkshire, 1 August 1982
10 m awayRef 198243F004082
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in West Berkshire, 6 November 1997
20 m awayRef 199743W056117
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in West Berkshire, 12 September 1988
22 m awayRef 198843F115098
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in West Berkshire, 30 July 1995
41 m awayRef 199543U130075
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Berkshire, 29 December 1996
54 m awayRef 199643U131126
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
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 201243W040112 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Berkshire road accident statistics for 2012.