Serious unclassified road crash in Reading RG4 on 15 December 2025 at 17:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Reading at 17:10 on Monday 15 December 2025. An 82-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Monday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46761, longitude -0.97408, in the RG4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Caversham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thames, Reading, RG4 8BE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Reading
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025430637012
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- 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 27 January 2008.
Slight
Car crash on the A4155 in Reading, 27 January 2008
2 m awayRef 200843W176018
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A4155 in Reading, 5 March 2012
2 m awayRef 201243W036032
Serious
BMW X5 crash on the A4155 in Reading, 6 December 2022
4 m awayRef 2022430548448
Slight
Car crash on the A4155 in Reading, 22 January 2004
10 m awayRef 200443W431014
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A4155 in Reading, 29 September 1999
10 m awayRef 199943W347099
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4155 in Reading, 3 August 2012
10 m awayRef 201243W015082
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 82, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025430637012 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 2025.