C road crash in Croydon CR8 on 6 December 2012 at 14:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Croydon at 14:20 on Thursday 6 December 2012. A 15-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 6 Dec 2012
- Thursday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33991, longitude -0.11708, in the CR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Purley & Woodcote, Croydon, CR8 2LT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201ZD30972
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 23
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 1996.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in Croydon, 26 November 1996
At the same spotRef 199601ZD00777
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on a C road in Croydon, 20 June 1998
At the same spotRef 199801ZD00350
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on a C road in Croydon, 19 February 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010019510
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A23 in Croydon, 27 May 2002
At the same spotRef 200201ZD00522
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Croydon, 2 October 2025
1 m awayRef 2025010601330
Serious
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A23 in Croydon, 11 November 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010608793
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 201201ZD30972 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.