B4001 crash in West Berkshire on 17 August 2017 at 11:30 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the B4001 in West Berkshire at 11:30 on Thursday 17 August 2017. A 75-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Aug 2017
- Thursday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50826, longitude -1.53103, in the RG17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lambourn.
Map of where the crash happened in West Berkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017430251663
- Council area
- West Berkshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4001
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4000
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 April 1990.
Slight
Renault 12 crash on an unclassified road in West Berkshire, 12 April 1990
7 m awayRef 199043F040040
Slight
Car crash on the B4000 in West Berkshire, 11 September 1983
7 m awayRef 198343F021093
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B4000 in West Berkshire, 29 August 1986
9 m awayRef 198643F112086
Slight
Tractor crash on the B4001 in West Berkshire, 5 June 2020
12 m awayRef 2020430193706
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4000 in West Berkshire, 17 May 2013
12 m awayRef 201343R129053
Slight
Volvo C40 crash on an unclassified road in West Berkshire, 18 April 2025
14 m awayRef 2025430189703
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 75, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2017430251663 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 2017.