Serious C road crash in Croydon CR7 on 29 August 2005 at 16:23 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo hit a pedestrian on a C road in Croydon at 16:23 on Monday 29 August 2005. A 14-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 29 Aug 2005
- Monday, 16:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40436, longitude -0.10997, in the CR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bensham Manor, Croydon, CR7 7LD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501ZD30978
- 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 8 March 2005.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Croydon, 8 March 2005
At the same spotRef 200501ZD30365
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Croydon, 25 December 1997
14 m awayRef 199701ZN00922
Slight
Kia Niro crash on a C road in Croydon, 16 March 2022
30 m awayRef 2022010365769
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Croydon, 5 December 1983
32 m awayRef 1983010ZN0939
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Croydon, 24 February 1986
36 m awayRef 198601ZN00134
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on a C road in Croydon, 15 June 2001
36 m awayRef 200101ZD00670
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200501ZD30978 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.