Unclassified road crash in Spelthorne TW16 on 2 August 2012 at 09:50 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne at 09:50 on Thursday 2 August 2012. The 36-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo and a male passenger in the Volkswagen Polo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2012
- Thursday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41421, longitude -0.41013, in the TW16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sunbury-on-Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sunbury East, Spelthorne, TW16 5EA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Spelthorne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201245SP72740
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 19 November 1986
10 m awayRef 198601TG00542
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 18 April 1992
14 m awayRef 199201TG00137
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 13 February 1988
20 m awayRef 198801TG00071
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 5 January 1986
30 m awayRef 198601TG00006
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 12 February 1997
76 m awayRef 199701TG00054
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 24 December 2005
76 m awayRef 200545SP80227
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 87 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 201245SP72740 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.