Serious B4001 crash in West Berkshire on 20 January 2014 at 12:37 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 crashed on the B4001 in West Berkshire at 12:37 on Monday 20 January 2014. The 19-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Jan 2014
- Monday, 12:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51946, longitude -1.52303, in the RG17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Berkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201443W144014
- Council area
- West Berkshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4001
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 173 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 1990.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4001 in West Berkshire, 5 October 1990
173 m awayRef 199043F014100
Slight
Lancia Delta crash on the B4001 in West Berkshire, 2 May 1993
209 m awayRef 199343U025053
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4001 in West Berkshire, 18 June 2003
229 m awayRef 200343W388063
Slight
Scania crash on the B4001 in West Berkshire, 30 March 2005
328 m awayRef 200543P381035
Slight
Car crash on the B4001 in West Berkshire, 24 August 1982
329 m awayRef 198243F064082
Slight
Volvo crash on the B4001 in West Berkshire, 27 September 1993
437 m awayRef 199343U078093
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
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 201443W144014 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.