M25 crash in Spelthorne on 17 December 2012 at 11:49 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira crashed on the M25 in Spelthorne at 11:49 on Monday 17 December 2012. A 5-year-old male passenger and a 12-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2012
- Monday, 11:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45004, longitude -0.52304, in the TW19 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Staines, Spelthorne, TW19 6EQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Spelthorne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012450001987
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- 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 25 March 2003.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the M25 in Spelthorne, 25 March 2003
10 m awayRef 200345RN35692
Slight
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10 m awayRef 200545SP70709
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the M25 in Spelthorne, 11 June 1992
10 m awayRef 199201TG00218
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the M25 in Spelthorne, 16 September 2016
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Serious
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18 m awayRef 2025451636276
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the M25 in Spelthorne, 28 December 2014
20 m awayRef 2014450021321
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- 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 2012450001987 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 2012.