A222 crash in Croydon on 12 December 1998 at 17:10 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on the A222 in Croydon at 17:10 on Saturday 12 December 1998. The 26-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta 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
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 1998
- Saturday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37874, longitude -0.07944, 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
- 199801ZN00830
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 222
- 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 25 February 2010.
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on the A222 in Croydon, 25 February 2010
At the same spotRef 201001ZD30299
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 20 July 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010122267
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A222 in Croydon, 27 April 2015
At the same spotRef 201501ZD30323
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the A222 in Croydon, 20 May 2001
At the same spotRef 200101ZD00544
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MG Metro crash on the A222 in Croydon, 1 February 2000
At the same spotRef 200001ZD00141
Slight
Mercedes Cla Class crash on the A222 in Croydon, 23 December 2022
4 m awayRef 2022010418074
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199801ZN00830 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.