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A308 crash in Spelthorne on 25 August 2000 at 00:05 involving a Volkswagen Corrado

A Volkswagen Corrado crashed on the A308 in Spelthorne at 00:05 on Friday 25 August 2000. The 21-year-old male driver and a 22-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
25 Aug 2000
Friday, 00:05
Vehicles
1
Volkswagen Corrado
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41355, longitude -0.40109, in the TW16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sunbury-on-Thames.

Map of where the crash happened in Spelthorne

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
200045SP00554
Council area
Spelthorne
Police force
Surrey
Police attended the scene
Yes
Highway authority
Surrey

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
308
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 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
Dry
Carriageway hazards
Other object in carriageway

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 April 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Corrado

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years
    Engine capacity
    1,781 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    8 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Corrado)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Corrado)

    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 200045SP00554 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 2000.