A2022 crash in Croydon on 24 December 2016 at 22:24 involving a Vauxhall Vivaro van
A Vauxhall Vivaro van and a Peugeot 308 were involved in a crash on the A2022 in Croydon at 22:24 on Saturday 24 December 2016. The 50-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vivaro van was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 22:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vivaro and Peugeot 308
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33961, longitude -0.12097, in the CR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Purley & Woodcote, Croydon, CR8 2LT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010008740
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2022
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A2022 in Croydon, 5 October 1987
At the same spotRef 198701ZD00727
Slight
Rover Montego crash on the A2022 in Croydon, 29 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199701ZD00806
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2022 in Croydon, 23 November 2002
At the same spotRef 200201ZD01265
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A2022 in Croydon, 9 April 1995
At the same spotRef 199501ZD00242
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 5 March 1997
At the same spotRef 199701ZD00129
Slight
Hyundai Lantra crash on the A2022 in Croydon, 20 May 2001
At the same spotRef 200101ZD00558
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vivaro
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 308
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vivaro)
- 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 2016010008740 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.