A308 crash in Spelthorne on 19 May 1985 at 11:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A308 in Spelthorne at 11:40 on Sunday 19 May 1985. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 May 1985
- Sunday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42566, longitude -0.46858, in the TW15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Spelthorne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501TG00236
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 308
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 March 2016.
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 22 March 2016
17 m awayRef 2016450053289
Slight
Car crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 23 November 1983
20 m awayRef 1983010IW0874
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 6 December 1991
28 m awayRef 199101TG00464
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 27 March 2003
28 m awayRef 200345RE35476
Serious
Car crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 7 February 1984
32 m awayRef 198401IW00101
Slight
MG HS crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 20 October 2025
36 m awayRef 2025451657286
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198501TG00236 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Spelthorne road accident statistics for 1985.