B273 crash in Croydon on 24 December 2015 at 16:40 involving a Toyota Prius
A car and a Toyota Prius were involved in a crash on the B273 in Croydon at 16:40 on Thursday 24 December 2015. The 46-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Toyota Prius
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40567, longitude -0.10376, in the CR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thornton Heath, Croydon, CR7 8PN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501ZD31099
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 273
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 2015.
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the B273 in Croydon, 21 October 2015
At the same spotRef 201501ZD30895
Slight
Ford S-Max crash on the B273 in Croydon, 28 April 2007
At the same spotRef 200701ZD30360
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B273 in Croydon, 3 April 2019
9 m awayRef 2019010173139
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B273 in Croydon, 16 August 1999
10 m awayRef 199901ZN00572
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B273 in Croydon, 10 May 1984
10 m awayRef 198401ZN00375
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on the B273 in Croydon, 12 December 2016
10 m awayRef 2016010006361
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Prius
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201501ZD31099 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.