Serious unclassified road crash in Wokingham RG40 on 21 February 2020 at 18:16 involving a Mercedes C Class
A motorcycle and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham at 18:16 on Friday 21 February 2020. The 39-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Feb 2020
- Friday, 18:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43836, longitude -0.81696, in the RG40 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hurley & Walthams, Windsor and Maidenhead, RG40 5SJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020430060936
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 2017.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 25 January 2017
2 m awayRef 2017430033667
Serious
Audi Q3 crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 7 September 2025
4 m awayRef 2025430458262
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 2 May 1995
6 m awayRef 199543R006055
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 14 July 1987
8 m awayRef 198743E061077
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 21 September 2001
15 m awayRef 200143W504091
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 23 June 1979
17 m awayRef 197943E079069
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 39, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2020430060936 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 2020.