Serious unclassified road crash in West Berkshire RG31 on 12 April 2014 at 14:25 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in West Berkshire at 14:25 on Saturday 12 April 2014. The 21-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Apr 2014
- Saturday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45349, longitude -1.05242, in the RG31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Reading. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tilehurst Birch Copse, West Berkshire, RG31 5HH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Berkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201443W114044
- Council area
- West Berkshire
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 July 1979.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in West Berkshire, 15 July 1979
12 m awayRef 197943E048079
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Berkshire, 4 July 1986
20 m awayRef 198643E024076
Serious
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in West Berkshire, 27 November 1991
29 m awayRef 199143M008631
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Berkshire, 9 October 1987
29 m awayRef 198743E033107
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in West Berkshire, 31 August 2001
38 m awayRef 200143W711081
Slight
Citroen AX crash on an unclassified road in West Berkshire, 15 February 2007
38 m awayRef 200743W156027
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201443W114044 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Berkshire road accident statistics for 2014.