A308 crash in Spelthorne on 5 October 2014 at 19:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Citroen C8 were involved in a crash on the A308 in Spelthorne at 19:00 on Sunday 5 October 2014. The 41-year-old female driver of the Citroen C8 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 2014
- Sunday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Citroen C8
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42236, longitude -0.44434, in the TW15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford Common. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashford Common, Spelthorne, TW15 1TJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Spelthorne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014450018579
- 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
- 308
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 9 April 1985
5 m awayRef 198501TG00157
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 3 March 1990
9 m awayRef 199001TG00098
Slight
MAN crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 28 November 2018
11 m awayRef 2018450802430
Slight
Car crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 14 October 2006
13 m awayRef 200645SP93167
Serious
Mercedes 190 crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 9 April 1999
13 m awayRef 199901TG00129
Slight
Car crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 18 February 1987
13 m awayRef 198701TG00054
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C8
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C8)
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 2014450018579 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 2014.