C road crash in Croydon CR0 on 12 December 2025 at 13:51 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus crashed on a C road in Croydon at 13:51 on Friday 12 December 2025. A 52-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2025
- Friday, 13:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37877, longitude -0.10113, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010614965
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a fatal crash on 20 May 2004.
Fatal
Dennis crash on the A212 in Croydon, 20 May 2004
4 m awayRef 200401TD00250
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Croydon, 3 August 1983
12 m awayRef 1983010ZD0567
Serious
Ford Cortina crash on a C road in Croydon, 14 January 1992
26 m awayRef 199201ZD00028
Slight
Leyland crash on the A212 in Croydon, 4 January 2002
30 m awayRef 200201ZD00013
Slight
Bus crash on the A212 in Croydon, 31 January 1992
33 m awayRef 199201ZD00093
Slight
Volvo crash on the A212 in Croydon, 19 December 2025
37 m awayRef 2025010616406
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 52, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2025010614965 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.