A2039 crash in Croydon on 23 April 2004 at 01:50 involving a Fiat Uno
A bus or coach and a Fiat Uno were involved in a crash on the A2039 in Croydon at 01:50 on Friday 23 April 2004. The 53-year-old male driver of the bus or coach was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 2004
- Friday, 01:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and Fiat Uno
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37488, longitude -0.08849, in the CR0 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Addiscombe West, Croydon, CR0 6SG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401ZD30095
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2039
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- C
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 2014.
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Bicycle crash on the A2039 in Croydon, 27 October 2014
At the same spotRef 201401ZD31038
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Taxi crash on the A232 in Croydon, 21 March 1984
At the same spotRef 198401ZD00224
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Renault Clio crash on the A2039 in Croydon, 2 May 2007
At the same spotRef 200701ZD30330
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Bus crash on the A232 in Croydon, 28 April 1984
At the same spotRef 198401ZD00330
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Car crash on the A232 in Croydon, 4 September 1993
At the same spotRef 199301ZD00485
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Wrightbus Gemini crash on the A2039 in Croydon, 31 October 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010606836
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Uno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
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 200401ZD30095 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 2004.