A215 crash in Croydon on 15 April 2015 at 11:07 involving an Audi Rio
An Audi Rio and a Rover Streetwise were involved in a crash on the A215 in Croydon at 11:07 on Wednesday 15 April 2015. The 40-year-old male driver of the Audi Rio 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
- 15 Apr 2015
- Wednesday, 11:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi Rio and Rover Streetwise
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4189, longitude -0.10451, in the SE19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood, Croydon, SE19 3QT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501ZD30300
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 215
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 October 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A215 in Croydon, 1 October 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010ZN0714
Slight
Car crash on the A215 in Croydon, 21 October 2014
10 m awayRef 201401ZD30960
Slight
Car crash on the A215 in Croydon, 8 January 1987
10 m awayRef 198701ZN00020
Slight
Car crash on the A215 in Croydon, 20 December 2007
10 m awayRef 200701ZD30688
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the A215 in Croydon, 7 October 1992
10 m awayRef 199201ZN00571
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the A215 in Croydon, 13 June 1993
10 m awayRef 199301ZN00372
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi Rio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Rover Streetwise
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi Rio)
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 201501ZD30300 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.