C road crash in Croydon CR2 on 26 September 2001 at 19:30 involving a Mazda Xedos
A Mazda Xedos, a Toyota Corolla and a Peugeot 205 were involved in a crash on a C road in Croydon at 19:30 on Wednesday 26 September 2001. The 33-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 205 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 2001
- Wednesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mazda Xedos and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33847, longitude -0.05655, in the CR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101ZD01082
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Involvement with previous collision
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 2011.
Slight
Yamaha BT 1100 crash on a C road in Croydon, 1 November 2011
10 m awayRef 201101ZD30798
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Croydon, 13 November 1989
10 m awayRef 198901ZN00884
Slight
BMW X6 crash on a C road in Croydon, 27 January 2025
11 m awayRef 2025010556132
Serious
Vauxhall Carlton crash on a C road in Croydon, 13 February 1990
14 m awayRef 199001ZN00172
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Croydon, 1 January 1986
22 m awayRef 198601ZN00004
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on a C road in Croydon, 4 December 2025
25 m awayRef 2025010613457
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mazda Xedos
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,255 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,295 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Previous accident
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Peugeot 205)
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 200101ZD01082 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 2001.