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Serious B273 crash in Croydon on 24 December 1992 at 21:23 involving a Honda C90E motorcycle

A Honda C90E motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the B273 in Croydon at 21:23 on Thursday 24 December 1992. A 40-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 27-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
24 Dec 1992
Thursday, 21:23
Vehicles
1
Honda C90E
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40456, longitude -0.10222, in the CR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199201ZN00752
Council area
Croydon
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
273
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Zebra crossing

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 1991.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Honda C90E

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    27 years
    Engine capacity
    89 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 27, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda C90E)

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda C90E)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 199201ZN00752 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Croydon road accident statistics for 1992.