Serious A30 crash in Spelthorne on 14 April 2007 at 14:15 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Peugeot 307 were involved in a crash on the A30 in Spelthorne at 14:15 on Saturday 14 April 2007. All four casualties were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Apr 2007
- Saturday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44496, longitude -0.46374, in the TW15 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashford North and Stanwell South, Spelthorne, TW15 3AA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200745SP02597
- 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
- 30
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Footbridge or subway
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 9 April 2007.
Serious
Mercedes 190 crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 9 April 2007
At the same spotRef 200745SP02266
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 28 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199401TG00506
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 10 July 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010IW0465
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 19 March 1995
10 m awayRef 199501TG00125
Slight
Van crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 9 July 2002
10 m awayRef 200245RN24984
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 30 January 2007
10 m awayRef 200745SP98834
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 51, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 307)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 307)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged under 1, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 307)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200745SP02597 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 2007.