A215 crash in Croydon on 23 July 1998 at 09:20 involving a Honda Accord
A Honda Accord and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the A215 in Croydon at 09:20 on Thursday 23 July 1998. The 52-year-old female driver of the Honda Accord was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 1998
- Thursday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Accord and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39851, longitude -0.07315, in the SE25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801ZN00472
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 215
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 215
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 15 June 2010.
Slight
Triumph Sprint ST 1050 crash on the A215 in Croydon, 15 June 2010
At the same spotRef 201001ZD30486
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A215 in Croydon, 16 February 1998
At the same spotRef 199801ZN00099
Slight
Mini One crash on the A215 in Croydon, 25 September 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010135259
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A215 in Croydon, 10 October 2005
At the same spotRef 200501ZD31360
Slight
Mitsubishi Galant crash on the A215 in Croydon, 5 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199801ZN00493
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A215 in Croydon, 30 November 2011
At the same spotRef 201101ZD30924
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,955 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Accord)
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 199801ZN00472 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.