B378 crash in Spelthorne on 24 December 2001 at 13:00 involving a Mercedes Vito van
A Mercedes Vito van hit a pedestrian on the B378 in Spelthorne at 13:00 on Monday 24 December 2001. A 19-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2001
- Monday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Vito
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43456, longitude -0.46553, in the TW15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashford Town, Spelthorne, TW15 2LP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Spelthorne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200145SP16807
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 378
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 2017.
Slight
Kawasaki ZX1000 crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 16 August 2017
4 m awayRef 2017450212915
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 17 July 2014
6 m awayRef 2014450016904
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 4 February 2017
7 m awayRef 2017450160215
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 6 September 1994
10 m awayRef 199401TG00325
Slight
Car crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 20 May 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010IW0344
Serious
Bus crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 29 September 1989
10 m awayRef 198901TG00413
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Vito
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes Vito)
- 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 200145SP16807 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 2001.