Serious A23 crash in Croydon on 25 December 2004 at 11:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on the A23 in Croydon at 11:40 on Saturday 25 December 2004. The 25-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured and the 25-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Dec 2004
- Saturday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33847, longitude -0.11699, in the CR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Purley & Woodcote, Croydon, CR8 2LT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401ZD39061
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 23
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 235
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 slight injury crash on 30 August 1999.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A23 in Croydon, 30 August 1999
At the same spotRef 199901ZD00521
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A23 in Croydon, 15 October 2014
At the same spotRef 201401ZD30978
Slight
Car crash on the A23 in Croydon, 28 May 2005
At the same spotRef 200501ZD30625
Serious
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A235 in Croydon, 9 October 1999
At the same spotRef 199901ZD00634
Slight
Daewoo Leganza crash on the A235 in Croydon, 26 July 2005
At the same spotRef 200501ZD31052
Slight
Leyland National crash on the A235 in Croydon, 5 January 1998
At the same spotRef 199801ZD00085
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 200401ZD39061 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.