Serious A215 crash in Croydon on 27 November 2016 at 19:49 involving a Rover Cityrover
A Rover Cityrover and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A215 in Croydon at 19:49 on Sunday 27 November 2016. The 26-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Nov 2016
- Sunday, 19:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Cityrover and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4092, longitude -0.08677, in the SE25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010003651
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 2021.
Slight
Honda CB crash on the A215 in Croydon, 2 August 2021
4 m awayRef 2021010322258
Serious
Audi A6 crash on the A215 in Croydon, 17 April 2025
18 m awayRef 2025010570105
Slight
Car crash on the A215 in Croydon, 7 June 1992
20 m awayRef 199201ZN00331
Slight
Peugeot 108 crash on the A215 in Croydon, 22 May 2023
21 m awayRef 2023010444391
Slight
Car crash on the A215 in Croydon, 8 November 1983
22 m awayRef 1983010ZN0858
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A215 in Croydon, 2 July 1995
22 m awayRef 199501LS00283
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Cityrover
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,405 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 2016010003651 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 2016.