A308 crash in Spelthorne on 22 March 2016 at 16:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Ford B-Max were involved in a crash on the A308 in Spelthorne at 16:15 on Tuesday 22 March 2016. The 41-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and a 48-year-old male passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Mar 2016
- Tuesday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Ford B-Max
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41966, longitude -0.42382, 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 Common, Spelthorne, TW16 7DL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016450058921
- 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
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 1993.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 5 July 1993
7 m awayRef 199301TG00233
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 15 November 2010
7 m awayRef 201045SP55855
Serious
Car crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 19 October 1999
7 m awayRef 199901TG00392
Serious
Piaggio ET2 crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 1 November 2012
14 m awayRef 2012450000047
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 26 May 2020
15 m awayRef 2020450953549
Slight
Mitsubishi crash on the A308 in Spelthorne, 13 June 2015
15 m awayRef 2015450025391
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford B-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016450058921 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.