Serious A212 crash in Croydon on 17 May 2004 at 08:55 involving a Vauxhall Frontera
A Vauxhall Frontera and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A212 in Croydon at 08:55 on Monday 17 May 2004. The 34-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 May 2004
- Monday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Frontera and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3658, longitude -0.08901, in the CR0 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Croydon, Croydon, CR0 1EZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401ZD30100
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 212
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 243
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 5 February 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the A212 in Croydon, 5 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198901ZD00092
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A212 in Croydon, 1 May 2003
At the same spotRef 200301ZD00432
Slight
Car crash on the A212 in Croydon, 17 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198901ZD00132
Slight
Scooter crash on the A212 in Croydon, 19 August 1987
At the same spotRef 198701ZD00570
Slight
Toyota Landcruiser crash on the A212 in Croydon, 16 March 1999
At the same spotRef 199901ZD00176
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B243 in Croydon, 5 January 1994
At the same spotRef 199401ZD00003
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Frontera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 200401ZD30100 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.