A212 crash in Croydon on 23 February 2014 at 19:45 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper and a car were involved in a crash on the A212 in Croydon at 19:45 on Sunday 23 February 2014. The 37-year-old male driver of the Mini Cooper was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2014
- Sunday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini Cooper and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40727, longitude -0.08944, in the SE25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thornton Heath, Croydon, CR7 8PN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401ZD30158
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 212
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 April 2010.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A212 in Croydon, 28 April 2010
At the same spotRef 201001ZD30322
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A212 in Croydon, 4 April 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010099918
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A212 in Croydon, 21 April 1995
At the same spotRef 199501ZN00267
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A212 in Croydon, 27 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200201ZD01010
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the A212 in Croydon, 19 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199801ZN00696
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A212 in Croydon, 24 May 1996
At the same spotRef 199601ZN00353
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
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 201401ZD30158 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 2014.