A308 crash in Spelthorne on 5 August 1992 at 12:20 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry hit a pedestrian on the A308 in Spelthorne at 12:20 on Wednesday 5 August 1992. A 21-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 1992
- Wednesday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4336, longitude -0.51248, in the TW18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Staines-upon-Thames.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199201TG00301
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 308
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 308
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 1995.
Slight
Van crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 24 November 1995
10 m awayRef 199501TG00490
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 28 September 1987
10 m awayRef 198701TG00384
Serious
Car crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 5 January 1989
14 m awayRef 198901TG00005
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 14 July 2025
15 m awayRef 2025451616062
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 26 April 2019
19 m awayRef 2019450834512
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 8 December 1990
20 m awayRef 199001TG00541
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,958 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 199201TG00301 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.