B377 crash in Spelthorne on 7 December 1996 at 17:15 involving a Renault 5
A Renault 5, a car and a Morris Marina were involved in a crash on the B377 in Spelthorne at 17:15 on Saturday 7 December 1996. The 17-year-old female driver of the car and a 16-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 1996
- Saturday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Renault 5 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43269, longitude -0.44935, in the TW15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199601TG00482
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 377
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 1996.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B377 in Spelthorne, 13 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199601TG00467
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B377 in Spelthorne, 1 May 2002
At the same spotRef 200245RN21915
Serious
Harley-Davidson crash on the B377 in Spelthorne, 28 August 1995
At the same spotRef 199501TG00361
Slight
Car crash on the B377 in Spelthorne, 20 October 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010IW0788
Slight
Triumph crash on the B377 in Spelthorne, 26 August 1997
At the same spotRef 199701TG00328
Slight
Car crash on the B377 in Spelthorne, 23 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200545SP80167
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Renault 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 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: Morris Marina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199601TG00482 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 1996.