A244 crash in Spelthorne on 2 February 2024 at 11:53 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Toyota RAV4 were involved in a crash on the A244 in Spelthorne at 11:53 on Friday 2 February 2024. A 20-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Feb 2024
- Friday, 11:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Toyota RAV4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40227, longitude -0.43404, 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
- 2024451405623
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 26 February 1988
7 m awayRef 198801TG00085
Slight
Piaggio Zip crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 1 October 2003
7 m awayRef 200345RN43252
Slight
Car crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 13 November 1999
12 m awayRef 199901TG00405
Slight
Car crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 30 August 1988
21 m awayRef 198801TG00354
Slight
Car crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 24 September 1982
26 m awayRef 1982010IW0688
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 30 June 1998
31 m awayRef 199801TG00215
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,231 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2024451405623 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 2024.