Serious C road crash in Croydon CR0 on 14 August 2015 at 10:25 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on a C road in Croydon at 10:25 on Friday 14 August 2015. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Aug 2015
- Friday, 10:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37431, longitude -0.09471, in the CR0 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fairfield, Croydon, CR9 1SS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501ZD30698
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 November 2025.
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on a C road in Croydon, 3 November 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010607274
Slight
BYD Enviro crash on a C road in Croydon, 5 June 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010578850
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on a C road in Croydon, 26 April 2009
10 m awayRef 200901ZD30284
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on a C road in Croydon, 6 November 2018
14 m awayRef 2018010143789
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Croydon, 24 July 1997
14 m awayRef 199701ZD00424
Slight
Leyland crash on a C road in Croydon, 24 May 2000
14 m awayRef 200001ZD00611
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- 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 201501ZD30698 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.