Unclassified road crash in Wokingham RG5 on 14 March 2024 at 07:20 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Ford Transit Connect van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham at 07:20 on Thursday 14 March 2024. The 25-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series 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
- 14 Mar 2024
- Thursday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Ford Transit Connect
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44432, longitude -0.90381, in the RG5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Woodley. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Lake, Wokingham, RG5 3RX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wokingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024430108757
- Council area
- Wokingham
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 January 2025.
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 7 January 2025
8 m awayRef 2025430009980
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Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 2 March 1991
12 m awayRef 199143N001661
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 8 May 1994
16 m awayRef 199443W031054
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 20 October 1980
34 m awayRef 198043E076100
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Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 20 April 2007
48 m awayRef 200743W203047
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wokingham, 15 June 1983
53 m awayRef 198343E052063
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
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 2024430108757 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 2024.