Unclassified road crash in Spelthorne TW15 on 16 November 2022 at 19:00 involving a Mercedes CLS Class
A Mercedes CLS Class and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne at 19:00 on Wednesday 16 November 2022. The 33-year-old male driver of the Mercedes CLS Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Nov 2022
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes CLS Class and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43111, longitude -0.45597, in the TW15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashford Common, Spelthorne, TW15 1LE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022451243566
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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 with 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 1997.
Slight
Car crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 12 June 1997
7 m awayRef 199701TG00234
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 28 February 1997
7 m awayRef 199701TG00074
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B377 in Spelthorne, 14 June 2017
28 m awayRef 2017450199106
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B337 in Spelthorne, 22 April 1982
35 m awayRef 1982010IW0266
Slight
Car crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 22 May 1983
37 m awayRef 1983010IW0349
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 21 January 2023
37 m awayRef 2023451266605
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes CLS Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes CLS Class)
- 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 2022451243566 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 2022.