Unclassified road crash in Croydon CR0 on 19 December 2007 at 08:05 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Croydon at 08:05 on Wednesday 19 December 2007. The 49-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 24-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2007
- Wednesday, 08:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37379, longitude -0.12115, in the CR0 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Beddington, Sutton, CR9 4EP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701ZD30752
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 January 2003.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 30 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200301ZD00127
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 8 December 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010ZD0940
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 6 March 1984
10 m awayRef 198401ZD00184
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 8 November 1984
10 m awayRef 198401ZD00903
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 17 June 1992
14 m awayRef 199201ZD00397
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 8 December 1993
14 m awayRef 199301ZD00690
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, 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 200701ZD30752 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.