A30 crash in Spelthorne on 29 December 2015 at 13:40 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on the A30 in Spelthorne at 13:40 on Tuesday 29 December 2015. A 12-year-old female passenger in the Audi A4 and the 49-year-old female driver of the Audi A4 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2015
- Tuesday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Sprinter and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43647, longitude -0.49947, in the TW18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Staines, Spelthorne, TW18 4LT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015450037337
- 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
- 30
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 308
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto traffic signal, out
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 6 January 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 6 January 2016
1 m awayRef 2016450038545
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 7 September 1998
3 m awayRef 199801TG00334
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 18 December 1992
3 m awayRef 199201TG00512
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 28 April 1986
3 m awayRef 198601TG00178
Slight
Car crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 3 November 1983
3 m awayRef 1983010IW0813
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 30 August 2005
3 m awayRef 200545SP74717
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
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 2015450037337 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 2015.