Unclassified road crash in Wokingham RG5 on 5 October 2017 at 08:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wokingham at 08:45 on Thursday 5 October 2017. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 2017
- Thursday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45121, longitude -0.9157, in the RG5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Woodley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bulmershe & Coronation, Wokingham, RG5 3EX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017430309222
- Council area
- Wokingham
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto traffic signal, out
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 26 October 1984
25 m awayRef 198443E105104
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 12 November 1979
28 m awayRef 197943E051119
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 10 October 1997
47 m awayRef 199743W069107
Slight
Iveco crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 9 January 2015
52 m awayRef 201543W239015
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 30 March 1984
64 m awayRef 198443E107034
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 24 April 1999
64 m awayRef 199943W239049
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2017430309222 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wokingham road accident statistics for 2017.