C road crash in Croydon CR2 on 27 December 2022 at 20:00 involving a Honda WW125 motorcycle
A Honda WW125 motorcycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on a C road in Croydon at 20:00 on Tuesday 27 December 2022. The 29-year-old male rider of the Honda WW125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2022
- Tuesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda WW125 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33784, longitude -0.08912, in the CR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sanderstead, Croydon, CR2 0PD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010418905
- 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
- C
- 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
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 slight injury crash on 8 January 2012.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Croydon, 8 January 2012
6 m awayRef 201201ZD30023
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on a C road in Croydon, 4 February 2006
6 m awayRef 200601ZD30034
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Croydon, 22 July 1987
6 m awayRef 198701ZD00495
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Croydon, 2 September 2009
6 m awayRef 200901ZD30642
Serious
Aprilia crash on a C road in Croydon, 3 October 2000
6 m awayRef 200001ZD01159
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Croydon, 15 November 1988
8 m awayRef 198801ZD00835
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda WW125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda WW125)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2022010418905 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.