A213 crash in Croydon on 4 November 2017 at 17:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A213 in Croydon at 17:45 on Saturday 4 November 2017. The 41-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2017
- Saturday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40082, longitude -0.07115, in the SE25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Woodside, Croydon, SE25 5JN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010068181
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 213
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Oil or diesel
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
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 22 November 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A213 in Croydon, 22 November 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010072325
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Peugeot 107 crash on the A213 in Croydon, 4 November 2015
10 m awayRef 201501ZD30934
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Motorcycle crash on the B233 in Croydon, 6 May 1985
10 m awayRef 198501ZN00300
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Bicycle crash on the B233 in Croydon, 4 October 2011
10 m awayRef 201101ZD30734
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BMW X5 crash on the B233 in Croydon, 13 September 2020
12 m awayRef 2020010267554
Slight
Honda NSC crash on the A213 in Croydon, 28 December 2023
13 m awayRef 2023010486311
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2017010068181 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.