M25 crash in Spelthorne on 3 December 2022 at 03:25 involving an Audi A5
An Audi A5 crashed on the M25 in Spelthorne at 03:25 on Saturday 3 December 2022. A 39-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2022
- Saturday, 03:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45036, longitude -0.52296, in the TW19 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Staines, Spelthorne, TW19 6EQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Spelthorne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022451249563
- 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
- 25
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 2014.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the M25 in Spelthorne, 28 December 2014
13 m awayRef 2014450021321
Serious
Vauxhall Omega crash on the M25 in Spelthorne, 17 September 1997
18 m awayRef 199701TG00353
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the M25 in Spelthorne, 25 March 2003
19 m awayRef 200345RN35692
Slight
Iveco crash on the M25 in Spelthorne, 23 June 2005
19 m awayRef 200545SP70709
Slight
Car crash on the M25 in Spelthorne, 13 April 1990
22 m awayRef 199001TG00179
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the M25 in Spelthorne, 20 May 2023
26 m awayRef 2023451311090
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A5)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2022451249563 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.