Serious unclassified road crash in Reading RG1 on 31 December 2014 at 12:31 involving a Skoda Superb
A Skoda Superb hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Reading at 12:31 on Wednesday 31 December 2014. A 70-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 31 Dec 2014
- Wednesday, 12:31
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Superb
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4576, longitude -0.97216, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201443W294124
- 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
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the B4007 in Reading, 24 June 1988
7 m awayRef 198843E103068
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 4 March 2006
9 m awayRef 200643W089036
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 2 December 1991
9 m awayRef 199143M008921
Slight
Car crash on the B4007 in Reading, 18 May 1988
16 m awayRef 198843E060058
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 20 May 2000
16 m awayRef 200043W451050
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 3 July 1997
17 m awayRef 199743W012077
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Superb
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Superb)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 201443W294124 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.