Serious A329 crash in West Berkshire on 10 January 2023 at 07:35 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
A Ford Transit Connect van hit a pedestrian on the A329 in West Berkshire at 07:35 on Tuesday 10 January 2023. A 40-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Jan 2023
- Tuesday, 07:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit Connect
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48215, longitude -1.07829, in the RG8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pangbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pangbourne, West Berkshire, RG8 7GB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Berkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023430013255
- Council area
- West Berkshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 329
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Zebra crossing
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, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 1990.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A329 in West Berkshire, 7 September 1990
42 m awayRef 199043E022090
Slight
Car crash on the A329 in West Berkshire, 27 March 2004
51 m awayRef 200443P450034
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A329 in West Berkshire, 22 January 2009
51 m awayRef 200943W151019
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the A329 in West Berkshire, 12 September 2005
63 m awayRef 200543W208095
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A329 in West Berkshire, 21 September 2021
83 m awayRef 2021430426222
Slight
Car crash on the A329 in West Berkshire, 2 May 1985
90 m awayRef 198543E003055
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Transit Connect)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2023430013255 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Berkshire road accident statistics for 2023.