A244 crash in Spelthorne on 26 February 2016 at 08:37 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo hit a pedestrian on the A244 in Spelthorne at 08:37 on Friday 26 February 2016. A 6-year-old female pedestrian was 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
- 26 Feb 2016
- Friday, 08:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42605, longitude -0.4272, in the TW16 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
- 2016450048980
- 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
- 244
- 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
- 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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 August 2003.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 25 August 2003
17 m awayRef 200345RN41585
Serious
Car crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 29 August 1987
20 m awayRef 198701TG00331
Slight
Car crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 26 September 1995
24 m awayRef 199501TG00403
Serious
Hyundai ix35 crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 18 February 2015
29 m awayRef 2015450021999
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 8 September 1993
29 m awayRef 199301TG00336
Fatal
Yamaha YZF R6 crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 24 April 2007
29 m awayRef 200745SP02648
Vehicles involved (1)
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
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 2016450048980 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 2016.