A308 crash in Spelthorne on 29 April 2008 at 17:50 involving a Citroen Xsara
A car and two Citroen Xsaras were involved in a crash on the A308 in Spelthorne at 17:50 on Tuesday 29 April 2008. The 24-year-old female driver of the car and the 40-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Apr 2008
- Tuesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Citroen Xsara and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42282, longitude -0.44838, in the TW15 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashford Common, Spelthorne, TW15 1LE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Spelthorne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200845SP22995
- 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
- 308
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 378
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 2014.
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 9 April 2014
4 m awayRef 2014450014724
Slight
BMW S 1000 crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 7 March 2025
6 m awayRef 2025451563428
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 30 June 1985
10 m awayRef 198501TG00312
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 20 February 2016
12 m awayRef 2016450046606
Slight
Car crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 4 January 1982
14 m awayRef 1982010IW0013
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 14 October 2022
18 m awayRef 2022451230575
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 3: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Xsara)
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 200845SP22995 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.