Serious A244 crash in Spelthorne on 24 May 1992 at 03:00 involving a BMW 6 Series
A BMW 6 Series crashed on the A244 in Spelthorne at 03:00 on Sunday 24 May 1992. The male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 May 1992
- Sunday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 6 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42746, longitude -0.42767, in the TW16 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199201TG00205
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 244
- Road type
- Single 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 September 1992.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 25 September 1992
10 m awayRef 199201TG00379
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 12 June 2011
14 m awayRef 201145SP61294
Slight
Car crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 23 April 1982
32 m awayRef 1982010IW0268
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 17 September 2025
37 m awayRef 2025451643316
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 25 May 1995
41 m awayRef 199501TG00233
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 4 September 2023
57 m awayRef 2023451348723
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 6 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 3,453 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 6 Series)
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 199201TG00205 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 1992.