B378 crash in Spelthorne on 15 May 2003 at 06:40 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series, a Ford Focus and a Daewoo Nexia were involved in a crash on the B378 in Spelthorne at 06:40 on Thursday 15 May 2003. The 68-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and the 32-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 2003
- Thursday, 06:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- BMW 3 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45267, longitude -0.4822, in the TW19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stanwell. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stanwell North, Spelthorne, TW19 7FL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200345SP37731
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 378
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 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 16 December 2006.
Slight
Yamaha XT 125 crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 16 December 2006
At the same spotRef 200645SP96171
Slight
Volvo 850 crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 4 January 2005
At the same spotRef 200545SP63150
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 2 September 2010
At the same spotRef 201045SP53520
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 15 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200345SP46442
Serious
Kia Pride crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 8 April 1997
10 m awayRef 199701TG00124
Slight
Car crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 12 December 1982
20 m awayRef 1982010IW0941
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,793 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 3: Daewoo Nexia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 200345SP37731 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.