Unclassified road crash in Spelthorne TW15 on 23 July 2003 at 15:33 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne at 15:33 on Wednesday 23 July 2003. The 20-year-old male driver of the Renault Clio and an 18-year-old male passenger in the Renault Clio were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 2003
- Wednesday, 15:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42982, longitude -0.45375, in the TW15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashford Common, Spelthorne, TW15 1LE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200345RN41019
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 378
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 2000.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 4 December 2000
10 m awayRef 200045SP00508
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 1 May 1993
10 m awayRef 199301TG00145
Slight
Car crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 20 July 1989
10 m awayRef 198901TG00298
Serious
Seat Ateca crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 26 January 2025
13 m awayRef 2025451546492
Slight
Car crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 16 September 1987
14 m awayRef 198701TG00359
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 15 July 2015
24 m awayRef 2015450026956
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,043 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
- 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 200345RN41019 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 2003.