Unclassified road crash in Reading RG2 on 17 May 2021 at 15:45 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Reading at 15:45 on Monday 17 May 2021. The 12-year-old male cyclist 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
- 17 May 2021
- Monday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43769, longitude -0.95226, 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 7HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Reading
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021430213396
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 March 2001.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 26 March 2001
6 m awayRef 200143W528031
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 2 February 2004
16 m awayRef 200443W030024
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 22 February 1993
65 m awayRef 199343W024023
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 20 January 1984
97 m awayRef 198443E069014
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 21 October 2019
106 m awayRef 2019430326792
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Reading, 2 November 1997
109 m awayRef 199743W108117
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 12, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2021430213396 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 2021.