Unclassified road crash in Croydon CR7 on 24 March 2015 at 15:48 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A bicycle and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Croydon at 15:48 on Tuesday 24 March 2015. The 40-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Mar 2015
- Tuesday, 15:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39782, longitude -0.10236, in the CR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bensham Manor, Croydon, CR7 7LD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501ZD30274
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 266
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 1993.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B266 in Croydon, 1 December 1993
At the same spotRef 199301ZN00795
Serious
Datsun Cherry crash on the B266 in Croydon, 19 December 1993
At the same spotRef 199301ZN00834
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 13 December 1999
At the same spotRef 199901ZN00943
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B266 in Croydon, 6 December 2022
3 m awayRef 2022010414733
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 12 November 2023
6 m awayRef 2023010477636
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the B266 in Croydon, 22 September 2023
6 m awayRef 2023010468378
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 40, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 201501ZD30274 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 2015.