B276 crash in Croydon on 18 October 2004 at 08:40 involving a Ford Mondeo
Two Ford Mondeos were involved in a crash on the B276 in Croydon at 08:40 on Monday 18 October 2004. A 15-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 and a 6-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 were 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
- 18 Oct 2004
- Monday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31621, longitude -0.1367, in the CR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Coulsdon Town, Croydon, CR5 2BZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401ZD30738
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 276
- 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 16 September 1983.
Fatal
Car crash on the B276 in Croydon, 16 September 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010ZD0679
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B276 in Croydon, 21 November 2004
At the same spotRef 200401ZD30848
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the B276 in Croydon, 14 February 1995
At the same spotRef 199501ZD00095
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B276 in Croydon, 4 October 2000
At the same spotRef 200001ZD01164
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the B276 in Croydon, 30 July 1998
At the same spotRef 199801ZD00447
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B276 in Croydon, 12 November 2009
At the same spotRef 200901ZD30865
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,544 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200401ZD30738 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.