A329 crash in Reading on 5 April 2017 at 22:02 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Piaggio Fly motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A329 in Reading at 22:02 on Wednesday 5 April 2017. The 22-year-old male rider of the Piaggio Fly motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Apr 2017
- Wednesday, 22:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Piaggio Fly
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45678, longitude -0.96321, 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
- 2017430121058
- Council area
- Reading
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 329
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 2020.
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A329 in Reading, 12 November 2020
1 m awayRef 2020430373491
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Carbodies Taxi crash on the A329 in Reading, 9 November 1997
2 m awayRef 199743W025117
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A329 in Reading, 28 November 1991
2 m awayRef 199143M008911
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A329 in Reading, 25 January 2025
3 m awayRef 2025430040262
Slight
Honda CBF125M crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 6 April 2019
4 m awayRef 2019430108385
Slight
Audi A5 crash on the A329 in Reading, 19 July 2019
9 m awayRef 2019430221802
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Piaggio Fly
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio Fly)
- 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 2017430121058 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 2017.