Unclassified road crash in Croydon CR3 on 6 November 2023 at 16:30 involving a BMW 4 Series
A BMW 4 Series and a Peugeot 407 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Croydon at 16:30 on Monday 6 November 2023. The 39-year-old male driver of the BMW 4 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Nov 2023
- Monday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 4 Series and Peugeot 407
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28949, longitude -0.12615, in the CR3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Croydon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023010476465
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 August 2005.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 8 August 2005
42 m awayRef 200501ZD30911
Serious
Hyundai i20 crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 3 November 2025
121 m awayRef 2025010607359
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 25 March 1982
123 m awayRef 1982010ZD0220
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 18 June 1991
241 m awayRef 199101ZD00408
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 10 August 1996
307 m awayRef 199601ZD00523
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1 in Islington, 12 November 1982
331 m awayRef 1982010NH0574
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 4 Series
Car
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 407
Car
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 4 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2023010476465 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 2023.