A30 crash in Spelthorne on 4 March 2008 at 18:10 involving a Volkswagen Sharan
A Volkswagen Sharan hit a pedestrian on the A30 in Spelthorne at 18:10 on Tuesday 4 March 2008. A 22-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Mar 2008
- Tuesday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Sharan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44285, longitude -0.47418, in the TW19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashford North and Stanwell South, Spelthorne, TW15 3AA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Spelthorne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200845SP19270
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 378
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 2005.
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 8 April 2005
At the same spotRef 200545SP66670
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 5 July 2006
At the same spotRef 200645SP88312
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 10 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200745SP15429
Slight
MAN crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 19 July 2010
At the same spotRef 201045SP52512
Fatal
Bicycle crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 22 March 2000
At the same spotRef 200001TG00096
Slight
MG ZR crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 4 November 2005
At the same spotRef 200545SP76628
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Sharan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Sharan)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200845SP19270 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 2008.