CROYDON recorded the highest number of road deaths in London between 2010 and 2013, an Advertiser study has found.
Thirty-three people died on the borough's roads in that four-year period, with the youngest victims both 14 years old, and the oldest aged 88.
The graphic on this page maps every fatality and serious injury during that timescale, showing which of the borough's roads and junctions are the most dangerous.
Another interactive map, which can be viewed below, shows 304 people were injured on roads in the town centre, including the High Street and South End, between 2011 and 2013.
Police recorded 250 incidents involving injuries on the busy Fiveways junction and surrounding roads in Waddon, and 234 in the area including Wellesley Road, Poplar Walk, Sydenham Road and Lansdowne Road.
The Advertiser's study is based on figures for road casualties published by the Department for Transport.
Austen Cooper, from the Croydon Cycling Campaign, said the research should prompt a review of the borough's outdated roads and junctions.
He explained: "The maps show that while traffic collisions of varying severity can and do happen on roads throughout the borough, there are clusters on the busiest ones and at junctions, particularly those designed with a 1960s mindset – to enable traffic to pass through swiftly."
As an example, Mr Cooper pointed to data uploaded to website Crashmap which shows a number of incidents along the one-way systems around the residential areas in Newgate and Hogarth Crescent, in Croydon.
Protests after cyclist deaths in central London in recent years have prompted the Mayor of London Boris Johnson to promise improvements to the capital's 100 worst junctions.
Mr Cooper wants to see this sort of remedial action here.
He said: "We need a similar programme in Croydon, with the council working in partnership with Transport for London to be proactive and identify the most dangerous places for all road users and make them safer.
"Failing to act – or waiting for fatalities and coroners' complaints – means people are put off walking and cycling and others are killed or injured, with us all paying the financial costs of that."
Calls for action over road safety followed a number of deaths
The map on this page highlights examples of tragic incidents that have prompted safety reviews, including an assessment of the tram network following the death of cyclist Roger de Klerk on November 12, 2013.
The death of two pedestrians at virtually the same spot in Cearn Way/Coulsdon Road in 2013 led a coroner to issue a similar call for action.
Next month a new drug-driving offence, making it illegal to drive if you exceed limits for illegal and certain prescription drugs, will come into place in England and Wales.
The law change was prompted by Lillian's Law, a campaign launched by the Advertiser and the family of Lillian Groves after the 14-year-old was knocked down and killed outside her home in New Addington in June 2010. She was killed by a speeding driver who had taken cannabis before getting behind the wheel.
The Advertiser has mapped figures for 2010 to 2013 because those periods are covered by the most in-depth data, but there were also a number of serious incidents and fatalities in 2014, including the death of John Maguire, 53, and his 15-year-old daughter Enya in a car crash on Purley Way on December 29.
Interactive map of road injuries (all types) in Croydon, 2011-13 by Lower Super Output Area (LSOA)
Despite the high number of deaths, the number of people suffering any form of injury on Croydon's roads has fallen in the last decade, from 1,412 in 2015 to 1,092 in 2013.
Many of the borough's busiest junctions are managed by TfL while other roads are overseen by the council. Next month, the authority will launch its bid to lower the speed limit in certain residential roads to 20mph.
"We expect that reducing speed will cut accidents and the severity of those that still occur," said Kathy Bee, the council's cabinet member for transport and the environment.
"Road safety is a really important; a serious accident can be devastating and every accident that is prevented is a good thing.
"My understanding is that it is usually the more deprived areas where there are more accidents, and Croydon is not unusual in this. Our more deprived areas are more likely to have housing in the vicinity of busy roads.
"Some of our 'hottest spots' are busy junctions on main roads managed by TfL and we are lobbying for improvements on these roads."
Croydon recorded the joint most road deaths in London between 2010 and 2013, with Enfield also experiencing 33.
