B273 crash in Croydon on 19 August 2014 at 12:50 involving a van
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 2014
- Tuesday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4068, longitude -0.10498, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401ZD30741
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 273
- 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
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 1997.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B273 in Croydon, 19 November 1997
10 m awayRef 199701ZN00812
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B273 in Croydon, 25 September 2013
14 m awayRef 201301ZD30804
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B273 in Croydon, 19 September 2004
14 m awayRef 200401ZD30609
Slight
Car crash on the B273 in Croydon, 25 September 2025
16 m awayRef 2025010599947
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B273 in Croydon, 1 October 2025
20 m awayRef 2025010601023
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B273 in Croydon, 1 December 1994
20 m awayRef 199401ZN00832
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201401ZD30741 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.