C road crash in Croydon CR8 on 19 February 2017 at 18:06 involving a Peugeot Expert van
A Peugeot Expert van hit a pedestrian on a C road in Croydon at 18:06 on Sunday 19 February 2017. A 14-year-old female pedestrian 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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Feb 2017
- Sunday, 18:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Expert
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33996, longitude -0.11707, 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
- 2017010019510
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 23
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 26 November 1996.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in Croydon, 26 November 1996
At the same spotRef 199601ZD00777
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on a C road in Croydon, 20 June 1998
At the same spotRef 199801ZD00350
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Croydon, 6 December 2012
At the same spotRef 201201ZD30972
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A23 in Croydon, 27 May 2002
At the same spotRef 200201ZD00522
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Croydon, 2 October 2025
1 m awayRef 2025010601330
Serious
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A23 in Croydon, 11 November 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010608793
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Expert
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot Expert)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017010019510 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 2017.