Serious C road crash in Croydon CR0 on 18 November 2022 at 13:45 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a Mercedes Cla Class were involved in a crash on a C road in Croydon at 13:45 on Friday 18 November 2022. The 63-year-old female driver of the Toyota Yaris was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Nov 2022
- Friday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Mercedes Cla Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34093, longitude -0.01496, in the CR0 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the New Addington South, Croydon, CR0 0NY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010411698
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 May 2003.
Serious
Ford Orion crash on a C road in Croydon, 26 May 2003
10 m awayRef 200301ZD00527
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Croydon, 26 December 2005
12 m awayRef 200501ZD31481
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Croydon, 21 July 1996
12 m awayRef 199601ZN00486
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Croydon, 4 February 1985
12 m awayRef 198501ZN00069
Slight
Vmoto Cpa crash on a C road in Croydon, 5 December 2025
12 m awayRef 2025010613579
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on a C road in Croydon, 25 January 1996
17 m awayRef 199601ZN00056
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Cla Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2022010411698 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 2022.