A23 crash in Croydon on 30 November 2015 at 20:56 involving a Mercedes C Class
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2015
- Monday, 20:56
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39152, longitude -0.11857, in the CR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Thornton, Croydon, CR0 3QA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501ZD31022
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 23
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 July 2011.
Slight
Volkswagen Touareg crash on the A23 in Croydon, 10 July 2011
At the same spotRef 201101ZD30509
Slight
Car crash on the A23 in Croydon, 5 May 2020
4 m awayRef 2020010246848
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A23 in Croydon, 18 October 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010604388
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A23 in Croydon, 28 September 2020
8 m awayRef 2020010270616
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A23 in Croydon, 29 November 2016
10 m awayRef 2016010003927
Serious
Austin Allegro crash on the A23 in Croydon, 16 July 1991
10 m awayRef 199101ZN00409
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- 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 201501ZD31022 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.