Unclassified road crash in Croydon CR0 on 24 December 2022 at 15:24 involving an Audi Q5
An Audi Q5 and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Croydon at 15:24 on Saturday 24 December 2022. The 54-year-old male driver of the Audi Q5 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2022
- Saturday, 15:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi Q5 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37807, longitude -0.09701, in the CR0 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fairfield, Croydon, CR9 1SS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010418264
- 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
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Pedestrian in carriageway, not injured
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, 27 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 June 2001.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 18 June 2001
27 m awayRef 200101ZD00683
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 14 March 1985
32 m awayRef 198501ZD00171
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 16 April 1985
44 m awayRef 198501ZD00256
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 16 October 1991
45 m awayRef 199101ZD00695
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 28 March 2011
76 m awayRef 201101ZD30197
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Croydon, 13 December 1988
80 m awayRef 198801ZD00922
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi Q5
Car
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi Q5)
- 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 2022010418264 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.