Serious C road crash in Croydon CR8 on 23 August 2005 at 08:10 involving a Honda CB600F motorcycle
A Honda CB600F motorcycle crashed on a C road in Croydon at 08:10 on Tuesday 23 August 2005. The 37-year-old male rider 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
- 23 Aug 2005
- Tuesday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CB600F
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30789, longitude -0.10002, in the CR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501TD00211
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 slight injury crash on 4 November 1994.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 4 November 1994
At the same spotRef 199401ZD00669
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Croydon, 22 March 1999
10 m awayRef 199901ZD00170
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Croydon, 24 January 1986
30 m awayRef 198601ZD00057
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on a C road in Croydon, 15 March 2025
34 m awayRef 2025010564052
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Croydon, 2 January 2012
40 m awayRef 201201ZD30026
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Croydon, 7 February 1990
40 m awayRef 199001ZD00096
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CB600F
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 37, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CB600F)
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 200501TD00211 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 2005.