A30 crash in Spelthorne on 24 July 2012 at 15:30 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira, a Citroen C3 and a car were involved in a crash on the A30 in Spelthorne at 15:30 on Tuesday 24 July 2012. The 53-year-old female driver of the Citroen C3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 2012
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Zafira and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43721, longitude -0.49666, in the TW18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Staines, Spelthorne, TW18 4JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Spelthorne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201245SP72518
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 2004.
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 11 July 2004
10 m awayRef 200445SP55700
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 25 August 1994
14 m awayRef 199401TG00303
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 23 May 1995
14 m awayRef 199501TG00254
Slight
Honda crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 29 May 2001
14 m awayRef 200145RN06807
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 15 December 1987
20 m awayRef 198701TG00500
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 16 September 2010
20 m awayRef 201045SP54318
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C3)
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 201245SP72518 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.