A327 crash in Reading on 31 January 2018 at 09:30 involving a Vauxhall Mokka
A Vauxhall Mokka and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A327 in Reading at 09:30 on Wednesday 31 January 2018. The 30-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Mokka and a 4-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Mokka were 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
- 31 Jan 2018
- Wednesday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Mokka and vehicle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42676, longitude -0.94683, in the RG2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Reading. It is one of the crashes that make up the Church, Reading, RG2 7EL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Reading
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018430048412
- Council area
- Reading
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 327
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A327 in Reading, 26 October 1987
5 m awayRef 198743E113107
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A327 in Reading, 21 January 2011
7 m awayRef 201143W162011
Slight
Honda CBR600F crash on the A327 in Wokingham, 19 September 2005
7 m awayRef 200543W282095
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A327 in Reading, 27 August 2020
8 m awayRef 2020430268425
Slight
Car crash on the A327 in Reading, 9 September 1984
8 m awayRef 198443E033094
Slight
Van crash on the A327 in Reading, 6 January 1998
9 m awayRef 199843W010018
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Mokka
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2
Vehicle type not recorded
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Mokka)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Mokka)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018430048412 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 2018.