Serious A213 crash in Croydon on 18 October 2025 at 10:48 involving a Mazda 3
A Mazda 3 and a Honda WW125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A213 in Croydon at 10:48 on Saturday 18 October 2025. The 36-year-old male rider of the Honda WW125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Oct 2025
- Saturday, 10:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 3 and Honda WW125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39523, longitude -0.0846, in the SE25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Norwood, Croydon, CR7 8SE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010604376
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 213
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 February 2022.
Serious
Audi Q3 crash on the A213 in Croydon, 11 February 2022
2 m awayRef 2022010359895
Slight
Suzuki SX4 crash on an unclassified road in Croydon, 16 September 2019
3 m awayRef 2019010216420
Serious
Volkswagen Crafter crash on the A213 in Croydon, 28 October 2020
4 m awayRef 2020010276370
Slight
BMW i3 crash on the A213 in Croydon, 11 October 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010603106
Slight
Car crash on the A213 in Croydon, 28 March 1982
5 m awayRef 1982010ZN0225
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A213 in Croydon, 12 July 1999
5 m awayRef 199901ZN00480
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Honda WW125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda WW125)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025010604376 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 2025.