Unclassified road crash in Reading RG30 on 30 August 2013 at 21:48 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and an Audi Q3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Reading at 21:48 on Friday 30 August 2013. The 28-year-old male driver of the Audi Q3 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 2013
- Friday, 21:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and Audi Q3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45248, longitude -1.00516, in the RG30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Reading. It is one of the crashes that make up the Southcote, Reading, RG30 2BD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Reading
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201343W205083
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 October 1981.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 29 October 1981
16 m awayRef 198143E103101
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 9 November 1983
16 m awayRef 198343E037113
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 1 February 1984
17 m awayRef 198443E005024
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 21 July 1980
17 m awayRef 198043E130070
Serious
Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 17 June 2011
24 m awayRef 201143W128061
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 31 October 1986
27 m awayRef 198643E145106
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Audi Q3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi Q3)
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 201343W205083 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.