A215 crash in Croydon on 16 June 2012 at 14:15 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A motorcycle and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A215 in Croydon at 14:15 on Saturday 16 June 2012. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jun 2012
- Saturday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38039, longitude -0.06296, in the CR0 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Addiscombe East, Croydon, CR0 6RS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201ZD30456
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 215
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 16 September 2015.
Serious
Ford Puma crash on the A215 in Croydon, 16 September 2015
At the same spotRef 201501ZD30773
Slight
Dennis crash on the A215 in Croydon, 10 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200101ZD00892
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A215 in Croydon, 31 December 2004
At the same spotRef 200401ZD39187
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A215 in Croydon, 16 September 2020
4 m awayRef 2020010268215
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A215 in Croydon, 12 June 2015
10 m awayRef 201501ZD30478
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A215 in Croydon, 19 February 2016
10 m awayRef 201601ZD30159
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201201ZD30456 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 2012.