Unclassified road crash in Reading RG1 on 7 December 2018 at 16:01 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Reading at 16:01 on Friday 7 December 2018. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2018
- Friday, 16:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44848, longitude -0.98416, in the RG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Reading. It is one of the crashes that make up the Coley, Reading, RG1 7YX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Reading
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018430380376
- Council area
- Reading
- 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 2022.
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 9 March 2022
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Slight
Fiat Bravo crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 13 January 2006
62 m awayRef 200643W181016
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 25 October 2002
91 m awayRef 200243W470102
Serious
Car crash on the A4 in Reading, 15 July 1987
112 m awayRef 198743E052077
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A4 in Reading, 13 March 1988
112 m awayRef 198843E042038
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A4 in Reading, 10 January 1997
115 m awayRef 199743W020017
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 2018430380376 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.