Crash in Spelthorne TW15 on 14 November 1985 at 17:25 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash in Spelthorne at 17:25 on Thursday 14 November 1985. The 22-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 17-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 1985
- Thursday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42403, longitude -0.46101, 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
- 198501TG00599
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 2025.
Slight
Mercedes Gla Class crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 24 March 2025
15 m awayRef 2025451568779
Fatal
Subaru Impreza crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 9 December 2017
16 m awayRef 2017450247473
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 14 September 1990
22 m awayRef 199001TG00407
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 17 January 2010
32 m awayRef 201045SP47996
Slight
Car crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 8 February 1989
41 m awayRef 198901TG00051
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 12 June 2012
50 m awayRef 201245SP71654
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198501TG00599 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.