A244 crash in Spelthorne on 20 November 2016 at 00:30 involving an Audi A5
An Audi A5 crashed on the A244 in Spelthorne at 00:30 on Sunday 20 November 2016. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a flooded single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 2016
- Sunday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42579, longitude -0.42722, 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
- 2016450135826
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 14 July 2016.
Serious
Triumph Street Triple crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 14 July 2016
At the same spotRef 2016450087113
Serious
Hyundai ix35 crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 18 February 2015
1 m awayRef 2015450021999
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 27 March 1996
12 m awayRef 199601TG00102
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 26 February 2016
30 m awayRef 2016450048980
Slight
Car crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 26 May 1985
31 m awayRef 198501TG00249
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 16 January 1987
32 m awayRef 198701TG00012
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A5)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2016450135826 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.