C road crash in Croydon CR0 on 18 April 2014 at 00:50 involving a Gilera Runner 125 motorcycle
A Gilera Runner 125 motorcycle and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on a C road in Croydon at 00:50 on Friday 18 April 2014. The 18-year-old male rider of the Gilera Runner 125 motorcycle 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
- 18 Apr 2014
- Friday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Gilera Runner 125 and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39069, longitude -0.0769, in the CR0 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Addiscombe West, Croydon, CR0 6DR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401ZD30367
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 4 May 1998.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Croydon, 4 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199801ZN00264
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Croydon, 6 February 2000
At the same spotRef 200001ZD00163
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Croydon, 25 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199801ZN00291
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Croydon, 13 November 2025
10 m awayRef 2025010609309
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Croydon, 10 March 2004
10 m awayRef 200401ZD00204
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Croydon, 25 June 2003
10 m awayRef 200301ZD00633
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Gilera Runner 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Gilera Runner 125)
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 201401ZD30367 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.