Serious A244 crash in Spelthorne on 21 December 2008 at 15:46 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A244 in Spelthorne at 15:46 on Sunday 21 December 2008. The 56-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Dec 2008
- Sunday, 15:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38943, longitude -0.4324, in the TW17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Shepperton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Walton Central, Elmbridge, KT13 9JH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Spelthorne
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200845SP33214
- 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
- 244
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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 slight injury crash on 12 October 2008.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 12 October 2008
At the same spotRef 200845SP30309
Fatal
Renault crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 3 October 1994
At the same spotRef 199401TG00356
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A244 in Runnymede, 11 February 1999
At the same spotRef 199945NA00051
Serious
Car crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 14 June 1986
At the same spotRef 198601TG00260
Slight
Car crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 25 October 1987
At the same spotRef 198701TG00421
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 13 July 1991
10 m awayRef 199101TG00264
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 56, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 200845SP33214 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.