B481 crash in Reading on 15 May 2012 at 09:18 involving a Land Rover Discovery
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 2012
- Tuesday, 09:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47431, longitude -0.96759, in the RG4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Caversham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Caversham, Reading, RG4 5DR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201243W094052
- Council area
- Reading
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 481
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 2014.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B481 in Reading, 6 June 2014
9 m awayRef 201443W063064
Serious
Yamaha XJR 1300 crash on the B481 in Reading, 21 June 2012
10 m awayRef 201243W129062
Slight
Car crash on the B481 in Reading, 1 May 1982
14 m awayRef 198243E001052
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B481 in Reading, 1 April 2004
14 m awayRef 200443W063044
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B481 in Reading, 28 September 1988
14 m awayRef 198843E124098
Slight
Cupra Formentor crash on the B481 in Reading, 12 September 2025
16 m awayRef 2025430469962
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 45, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 201243W094052 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Reading road accident statistics for 2012.