Unclassified road crash in Reading RG4 on 22 March 2013 at 21:03 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Toyota were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Reading at 21:03 on Friday 22 March 2013. A 20-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Mar 2013
- Friday, 21:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Toyota
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46606, longitude -0.9668, in the RG4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Caversham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thames, Reading, RG4 8BE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201343W124033
- Council area
- Reading
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 2018.
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the B3345 in Reading, 30 June 2018
10 m awayRef 2018430198674
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 6 September 1989
12 m awayRef 198943E026099
Slight
Kia Rio crash on the B3345 in Reading, 14 December 2020
16 m awayRef 2020430423747
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 11 November 1995
18 m awayRef 199543W029115
Slight
Renault 18 crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 8 August 1990
26 m awayRef 199043E027080
Slight
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the B3345 in Reading, 26 October 2001
32 m awayRef 200143W644101
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 201343W124033 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 2013.