A3044 crash in Spelthorne on 13 October 2007 at 20:40 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A3044 in Spelthorne at 20:40 on Saturday 13 October 2007. The 46-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and a 14-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Oct 2007
- Saturday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44001, longitude -0.49816, in the TW18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Staines, Spelthorne, TW18 4JJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200745SP12634
- 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
- 3044
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A3044 in Spelthorne, 20 October 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010IW0769
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A3044 in Spelthorne, 3 July 2020
12 m awayRef 2020450961947
Slight
Ducati 750 SS crash on the A3044 in Spelthorne, 13 July 2002
22 m awayRef 200245RN25019
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A3044 in Spelthorne, 24 November 2009
22 m awayRef 200945SP46842
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the A3044 in Spelthorne, 4 July 2012
22 m awayRef 201245SP72052
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A3044 in Spelthorne, 17 January 1998
36 m awayRef 199801TG00007
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 200745SP12634 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.