M3 crash in Spelthorne on 16 December 2018 at 14:57 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the M3 in Spelthorne at 14:57 on Sunday 16 December 2018. A 30-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2018
- Sunday, 14:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40675, longitude -0.4434, in the TW17 postcode district. 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
- 2018450803822
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Footbridge or subway
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Pedestrian in carriageway, not injured
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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 1992.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the M3 in Spelthorne, 27 October 1992
15 m awayRef 199201TG00428
Serious
Car crash on the M3 in Spelthorne, 3 February 1985
16 m awayRef 198501TG00050
Slight
Car crash on the M3 in Spelthorne, 6 May 1986
20 m awayRef 198601TG00186
Slight
Volvo crash on the M3 in Spelthorne, 4 July 2013
29 m awayRef 2013450007359
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the M3 in Spelthorne, 18 March 2017
29 m awayRef 2017450169267
Slight
Zastava Yugo crash on the M3 in Spelthorne, 29 November 1992
44 m awayRef 199201TG00487
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018450803822 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 2018.