A4 crash in Reading on 16 December 2014 at 18:30 involving a Peugeot 107
A Peugeot 107 and a Toyota Aygo were involved in a crash on the A4 in Reading at 18:30 on Tuesday 16 December 2014. The 17-year-old female driver of the Toyota Aygo 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
- 16 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 107 and Toyota Aygo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4487, longitude -0.97163, in the RG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Reading. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abbey, Reading, RG1 2JF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Reading
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201443W158124
- Council area
- Reading
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4 in Reading, 2 May 2015
6 m awayRef 201543W011055
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Reading, 4 September 1983
17 m awayRef 198343E017093
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Reading, 9 November 1990
17 m awayRef 199043E035110
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Reading, 30 November 1986
17 m awayRef 198643E163116
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A4 in Reading, 10 January 1996
25 m awayRef 199643W030016
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A4 in Reading, 15 August 2010
25 m awayRef 201043W088080
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 107
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Aygo)
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 201443W158124 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 2014.