B233 crash in Croydon on 29 April 2019 at 19:50 involving a Yamaha FZ8 motorcycle
A Yamaha FZ8 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B233 in Croydon at 19:50 on Monday 29 April 2019. The 19-year-old male rider of the Yamaha FZ8 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Apr 2019
- Monday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha FZ8 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39981, longitude -0.0723, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010177826
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 233
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 2016.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the B233 in Croydon, 2 May 2016
8 m awayRef 201601ZD30357
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B233 in Croydon, 11 November 2001
8 m awayRef 200101ZD01277
Serious
Car crash on the B233 in Croydon, 28 May 1992
16 m awayRef 199201ZN00300
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the B233 in Croydon, 10 October 1996
22 m awayRef 199601ZN00707
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B233 in Croydon, 4 June 2011
22 m awayRef 201101ZD30386
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B233 in Croydon, 6 July 1994
28 m awayRef 199401ZN00461
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha FZ8
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 779 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha FZ8)
- 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 2019010177826 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 2019.