M4 crash in Slough on 8 December 2019 at 03:40 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper and a car were involved in a crash on the M4 in Slough at 03:40 on Sunday 8 December 2019. The 40-year-old male driver of the Mini Cooper was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2019
- Sunday, 03:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini Cooper and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50491, longitude -0.62525, in the SL1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cippenham Manor, Slough, SL1 2TT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Slough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019430385076
- Council area
- Slough
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2005.
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the M4 in Slough, 8 December 2005
19 m awayRef 200543W107125
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on the M4 in Slough, 3 August 2001
23 m awayRef 200143W080081
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the M4 in Slough, 27 September 1992
25 m awayRef 199243R099092
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the M4 in Slough, 27 October 1995
25 m awayRef 199543R157105
Serious
Citroen DS3 crash on the M4 in Slough, 13 June 2017
27 m awayRef 2017430198021
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M4 in Slough, 20 July 2015
28 m awayRef 201543W231075
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- 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 2019430385076 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Slough road accident statistics for 2019.