Serious C road crash in Croydon CR0 on 19 April 2016 at 22:30 involving a Toyota Celica
A Toyota Celica crashed on a C road in Croydon at 22:30 on Tuesday 19 April 2016. The 30-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Apr 2016
- Tuesday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Celica
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37694, longitude -0.04443, in the CR0 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shirley North, Croydon, CR0 8DH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601ZD30285
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 17 November 1995.
Serious
Rover Vitesse crash on a C road in Croydon, 17 November 1995
At the same spotRef 199501ZN00770
Slight
Rover 25 crash on a C road in Croydon, 10 October 2001
10 m awayRef 200101ZD01146
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in Croydon, 4 June 2010
22 m awayRef 201001ZD30439
Slight
Triumph Acclaim crash on a C road in Croydon, 19 March 1998
41 m awayRef 199801ZN00165
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Croydon, 25 December 2017
51 m awayRef 2017010080095
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Croydon, 23 November 2002
54 m awayRef 200201ZD01229
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Celica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Bus stop or bus shelter
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Celica)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least 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 201601ZD30285 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.