Unclassified road crash in Spelthorne TW17 on 18 December 2017 at 12:55 involving a Ford Focus
A car and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne at 12:55 on Monday 18 December 2017. The 34-year-old male driver of the car and the 54-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2017
- Monday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40875, longitude -0.43178, in the TW17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Upper Halliford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Halliford and Sunbury West, Spelthorne, TW17 8QA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017450251597
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 13 January 1990.
Slight
Car crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 13 January 1990
5 m awayRef 199001TG00026
Serious
Yamaha XSR crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 22 September 2023
8 m awayRef 2023451358615
Slight
Car crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 18 July 1990
9 m awayRef 199001TG00310
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 21 October 2001
14 m awayRef 200145NS13708
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 14 January 2012
14 m awayRef 201245SP67367
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 2 June 2012
14 m awayRef 201245SP71124
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- 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
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- 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
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 2017450251597 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 2017.