A215 crash in Croydon on 15 May 2018 at 08:05 involving a Yamaha MT125 motorcycle
A Yamaha MT125 motorcycle and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the A215 in Croydon at 08:05 on Tuesday 15 May 2018. The 27-year-old male rider of the Yamaha MT125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 2018
- Tuesday, 08:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha MT125 and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41234, longitude -0.0885, in the SE19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood, Croydon, SE19 2UP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010107998
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 July 2017.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A215 in Croydon, 3 July 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010046294
Slight
Gilera Runner 125 crash on the A215 in Croydon, 21 September 2005
At the same spotRef 200501ZD31048
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A215 in Croydon, 27 September 1992
At the same spotRef 199201ZN00552
Slight
Car crash on the A215 in Croydon, 5 February 2019
6 m awayRef 2019010161678
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A215 in Croydon, 11 February 2025
10 m awayRef 2025010558979
Slight
Car crash on the A215 in Croydon, 12 October 1998
10 m awayRef 199801ZN00684
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha MT125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha MT125)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018010107998 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 2018.