A4 crash in West Berkshire on 12 May 2016 at 14:18 involving a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle
A Triumph Bonneville motorcycle crashed on the A4 in West Berkshire at 14:18 on Thursday 12 May 2016. The 62-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 2016
- Thursday, 14:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Triumph Bonneville
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43569, longitude -1.07587, in the RG7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Theale, West Berkshire, RG7 4TY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Berkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201643W098056
- Council area
- West Berkshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 January 2006.
Slight
Yamaha FZS 600 crash on the A4 in West Berkshire, 12 January 2006
6 m awayRef 200643W171016
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A4 in West Berkshire, 17 February 2011
6 m awayRef 201143W162021
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4 in West Berkshire, 31 October 2013
7 m awayRef 201343W227103
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Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A4 in West Berkshire, 12 December 2014
9 m awayRef 201443W132124
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Audi TT crash on the A4 in West Berkshire, 19 December 2014
17 m awayRef 201443W195124
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in West Berkshire, 16 March 1989
24 m awayRef 198943E049039
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Triumph Bonneville
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 865 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 62, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Triumph Bonneville)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 201643W098056 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 2016.