M25 crash in Spelthorne on 7 December 2005 at 19:15 involving a car
A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on the M25 in Spelthorne at 19:15 on Wednesday 7 December 2005. The 36-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2005
- Wednesday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44294, longitude -0.53044, in the TW19 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Datchet, Horton & Wraysbury, Windsor and Maidenhead, TW19 6HG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Spelthorne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200545RU79131
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 2015.
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the M25 in Spelthorne, 28 October 2015
12 m awayRef 2015450031201
Slight
Car crash on the M25 in Spelthorne, 9 November 1988
14 m awayRef 198801TG00478
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M25 in Runnymede, 13 January 1990
20 m awayRef 199045NA05037
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the M25 in Spelthorne, 11 July 2016
22 m awayRef 2016450087457
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the M25 in Spelthorne, 7 December 1997
22 m awayRef 199701TG00488
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the M25 in Spelthorne, 23 December 2007
22 m awayRef 200745SP16030
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200545RU79131 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 2005.