A23 crash in Croydon on 31 December 2007 at 07:45 involving a Peugeot 407
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2007
- Monday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 407 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40652, longitude -0.12096, in the SW16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Norbury & Pollards Hill, Croydon, SW16 4LA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701ZD30679
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 23
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 2011.
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on the A23 in Croydon, 7 October 2011
At the same spotRef 201101ZD30728
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A23 in Croydon, 6 June 2011
At the same spotRef 201101ZD30387
Slight
Van crash on the A23 in Croydon, 12 September 1997
At the same spotRef 199701ZN00657
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A23 in Croydon, 9 August 2016
At the same spotRef 201601ZD30698
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A23 in Croydon, 19 June 2016
At the same spotRef 201601ZD30524
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A23 in Croydon, 6 April 1985
At the same spotRef 198501ZN00234
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 407
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 407)
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 200701ZD30679 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 2007.