A329 crash in Reading on 23 August 2012 at 21:37 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A329 in Reading at 21:37 on Thursday 23 August 2012. The 21-year-old male rider of the Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 2012
- Thursday, 21:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45778, longitude -1.00064, in the RG30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Reading. It is one of the crashes that make up the Norcot, Reading, RG30 2NY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Reading
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201243W155082
- Council area
- Reading
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 329
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 8 July 1984.
Serious
Car crash on the A329 in Reading, 8 July 1984
At the same spotRef 198443E030074
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A329 in Reading, 27 January 1991
At the same spotRef 199143M000831
Serious
Austin 1800 crash on the A329 in Reading, 29 July 1991
At the same spotRef 199143M005291
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A329 in Reading, 20 September 2020
4 m awayRef 2020430297663
Slight
Car crash on the A329 in Reading, 17 May 2024
7 m awayRef 2024430229949
Serious
Taxi crash on the A329 in Reading, 17 September 2022
8 m awayRef 2022430428221
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox)
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 201243W155082 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.