A236 crash in Croydon on 22 December 2015 at 14:25 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A236 in Croydon at 14:25 on Tuesday 22 December 2015. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2015
- Tuesday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37916, longitude -0.11089, in the CR0 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Broad Green, Croydon, CR0 3LY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501ZD31091
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 236
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 March 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A236 in Croydon, 8 March 2012
At the same spotRef 201201ZD30241
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A236 in Croydon, 21 November 2010
At the same spotRef 201001ZD30967
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A236 in Croydon, 27 December 2021
4 m awayRef 2021010352089
Slight
Sym Jet crash on the A236 in Croydon, 14 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010610186
Fatal
Car crash on the A236 in Croydon, 30 May 2022
8 m awayRef 2022010379350
Slight
Kawasaki ZR550 crash on the A236 in Croydon, 6 June 1990
10 m awayRef 199001ZD00395
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 201501ZD31091 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.