B3031 crash in Reading on 20 August 2012 at 13:05 involving a Seat Alhambra
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Aug 2012
- Monday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Alhambra and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43951, longitude -0.96752, in the RG2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Reading. It is one of the crashes that make up the Katesgrove, Reading, RG2 0AG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201243W143082
- Council area
- Reading
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3031
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 2022.
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Serious
Car crash on the A33 in Reading, 13 December 1982
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Serious
Car crash on the A33 in Reading, 10 April 1985
10 m awayRef 198543E027045
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A33 in Reading, 28 May 1990
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Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3031 in Reading, 21 March 2011
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Alhambra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
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 201243W143082 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.