Unclassified road crash in Croydon CR0 on 30 December 1998 at 19:28 involving an LDV 400 Series
An LDV 400 Series and a Nissan Primera were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Croydon at 19:28 on Wednesday 30 December 1998. The 32-year-old female driver of the LDV 400 Series, a 49-year-old male passenger in the LDV 400 Series and the male driver of the Nissan Primera were slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 1998
- Wednesday, 19:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- LDV 400 Series and Nissan Primera
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36671, longitude -0.08612, in the CR0 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801ZD00795
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
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, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 65 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2024.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B243 in Croydon, 11 October 2024
65 m awayRef 2024010537168
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the B243 in Croydon, 12 November 2010
72 m awayRef 201001ZD30955
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B243 in Croydon, 1 March 2013
72 m awayRef 201301ZD30149
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B243 in Croydon, 13 July 1998
72 m awayRef 199801ZD00417
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the B243 in Croydon, 29 May 1998
72 m awayRef 199801ZD00321
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B243 in Croydon, 1 September 1999
72 m awayRef 199901ZD00531
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: LDV 400 Series
Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Primera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (LDV 400 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 49, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (LDV 400 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Primera)
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 199801ZD00795 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 1998.