A3044 crash in Spelthorne on 9 April 2010 at 11:20 involving a London Taxis Int. TX1
A London Taxis Int. TX1 and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A3044 in Spelthorne at 11:20 on Friday 9 April 2010. The 73-year-old male driver of the London Taxis Int. TX1 and a 52-year-old male passenger in the London Taxis Int. TX1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Apr 2010
- Friday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- London Taxis Int. TX1 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45033, longitude -0.49609, in the TW19 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201045SP50332
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 May 1989.
Serious
Lorry crash on the A3044 in Spelthorne, 15 May 1989
14 m awayRef 198901TG00183
Slight
Suzuki Supercarry crash on the A3044 in Spelthorne, 28 February 2002
20 m awayRef 200245RN19172
Slight
Piaggio ET2 crash on the A3044 in Spelthorne, 27 October 2003
41 m awayRef 200345EL46173
Slight
Volvo S60 crash on the A3044 in Spelthorne, 23 June 2006
45 m awayRef 200645SP87684
Slight
Car crash on the A3044 in Spelthorne, 25 February 1989
50 m awayRef 198901TG00075
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A3044 in Spelthorne, 13 December 2007
50 m awayRef 200745SP15400
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: London Taxis Int. TX1
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,664 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 73, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (London Taxis Int. TX1)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 52, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (London Taxis Int. TX1)
- 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 201045SP50332 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 2010.