A2022 crash in Croydon on 30 December 2007 at 20:39 involving a Seat Altea
A Seat Altea, an MG ZS and a car were involved in a crash on the A2022 in Croydon at 20:39 on Sunday 30 December 2007. An 18-year-old female passenger in the Seat Altea was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2007
- Sunday, 20:39
- Vehicles
- 3
- Seat Altea and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35096, longitude -0.03993, in the CR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Selsdon & Addington Village, Croydon, CR0 9BA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701ZD30740
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2022
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 November 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A2022 in Croydon, 6 November 1984
At the same spotRef 198401ZN00864
Slight
Taxi crash on the A2022 in Croydon, 6 December 2009
At the same spotRef 200901ZD39087
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A2022 in Croydon, 21 September 2008
At the same spotRef 200801ZD30827
Serious
Car crash on the A2022 in Croydon, 7 April 2024
4 m awayRef 2024010503790
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A2022 in Croydon, 29 November 2000
10 m awayRef 200001ZD01443
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A2022 in Croydon, 1 October 2003
10 m awayRef 200301ZD00917
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Seat Altea
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,604 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: MG ZS
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Altea)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200701ZD30740 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.