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Serious C road crash in Croydon CR8 on 31 December 1997 at 06:27 involving a Rover 200 Series

A Rover 200 Series crashed on a C road in Croydon at 06:27 on Wednesday 31 December 1997. The 35-year-old male driver was seriously 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
31 Dec 1997
Wednesday, 06:27
Vehicles
1
Rover 200 Series
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34216, longitude -0.11399, in the CR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199701ZD00799
Council area
Croydon
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
C
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
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 2009.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    35 years
    Engine capacity
    1,342 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    8 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)

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 199701ZD00799 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 1997.