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Fatal A308 crash in Spelthorne on 10 July 1998 at 18:45 involving a Dennis bus

A Dennis bus crashed on the A308 in Spelthorne at 18:45 on Friday 10 July 1998. An 83-year-old female passenger was killed.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Fatal
Date
10 Jul 1998
Friday, 18:45
Vehicles
1
Dennis
Casualties
1
1 killed

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4197, longitude -0.41916, in the TW16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sunbury-on-Thames.

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199801TG00337
Council area
Spelthorne
Police force
Metropolitan Police
Highway authority
Surrey

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
308
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Other junction
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
Unclassified

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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 2004.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Dennis

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    33 years
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    0 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Fatal

    Female, aged 83, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)

    Bus or coach passenger
    Seated 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 199801TG00337 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 1998.