Unclassified road crash in Croydon CR2 on 23 December 2020 at 19:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Croydon at 19:00 on Wednesday 23 December 2020. The 22-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in the rain on a road with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2020
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36105, longitude -0.08784, in the CR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Croydon, Croydon, CR0 1EZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020010286366
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- C
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
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, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 November 1988.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Croydon, 18 November 1988
6 m awayRef 198801ZD00845
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Croydon, 7 October 1990
6 m awayRef 199001ZD00719
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Croydon, 17 January 1992
6 m awayRef 199201ZD00048
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Croydon, 27 November 1992
6 m awayRef 199201ZD00756
Serious
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Croydon, 24 April 1991
6 m awayRef 199101ZD00259
Slight
Citroen AX crash on a C road in Croydon, 27 June 2001
6 m awayRef 200101ZD00713
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2020010286366 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 2020.