A321 crash in Wokingham on 22 February 2012 at 16:49 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A321 in Wokingham at 16:49 on Wednesday 22 February 2012. A 28-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Feb 2012
- Wednesday, 16:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53489, longitude -0.89529, in the RG9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Henley-on-Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the Henley-on-Thames, South Oxfordshire, RG9 6WJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wokingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201243W149022
- Council area
- Wokingham
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 321
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 1984.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A321 in Wokingham, 30 June 1984
10 m awayRef 198443E127064
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A321 in Wokingham, 25 June 1997
22 m awayRef 199743R159067
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A321 in Wokingham, 3 July 1982
28 m awayRef 198243E047072
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A321 in Wokingham, 28 March 2005
42 m awayRef 200543P355035
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the A321 in Wokingham, 17 March 2008
42 m awayRef 200843P241038
Slight
Car crash on the A321 in Wokingham, 3 August 1985
45 m awayRef 198543E016085
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201243W149022 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.