C road crash in Croydon CR7 on 20 July 2014 at 17:38 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on a C road in Croydon at 17:38 on Sunday 20 July 2014. The 28-year-old male driver of the Ford KA 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
- 20 Jul 2014
- Sunday, 17:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40806, longitude -0.09961, in the CR7 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
- 201401ZD30656
- 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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 2010.
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Nissan Navara crash on a C road in Croydon, 10 May 2010
At the same spotRef 201001ZD30349
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Honda WW125 crash on a C road in Croydon, 5 August 2024
4 m awayRef 2024010525576
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Austin Mini crash on a C road in Croydon, 11 November 1997
10 m awayRef 199701ZN00801
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Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Croydon, 31 December 2014
20 m awayRef 201401ZD39088
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Triumph Acclaim crash on a C road in Croydon, 21 July 1990
40 m awayRef 199001ZN00485
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Hyundai i10 crash on a C road in Croydon, 4 October 2011
51 m awayRef 201101ZD30771
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 201401ZD30656 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.