Croydon is the second most crash-prone borough in London according to new figures revealed by the London Fire Brigade.

The borough saw 1,008 collisions between 2011 and 2015 and registered far more crashes than any of its neighbouring boroughs.

Kingston is the south-West’s safest borough, according to the data, with the Brigade only called to 282 crashes over the same period.

Meanwhile, Sutton and Bromley registered 429 and 894 collisions respectively.

The figures show a 15 per cent rise in the total number of crashes throughout the capital, jumping from 3,505 in 2011 to 4,057 in 2015.

And nearly every day the Brigade have to cut someone from a vehicle the report showed 347 extractions were carried out over the last year.

The only borough to record more crashes than Croydon was Barnet, in north London, in with 1,067.

Meanwhile, the City of London had just 53 collisions over the period, the lower than any of the capital’s borough’s.

Dave Brown, Director of Operations of the Brigade, said: “Our crews are spending an increasing amount of time attending road traffic collisions and I want to urge people to take care on the road.

“Crews are regularly called to serious road traffic collisions and our firefighters are exceptionally well trained and have specialist equipment to free people who are trapped in vehicles.

“We are committed to reducing the number of road traffic collisions in London.”

Other Southern boroughs Lewisham and Merton recorded 642 and 384 crashes respectively while Richmond registered 286, just four more than neighbours Kingston.

Leon Daniels, Managing Director of Surface Transport at Transport for London, said: “Any death or injury on our roads is a tragedy, and we are working to reduce collisions involving all road users by creating more attractive, accessible and people-friendly streets.

“We are making walking and cycling safer, working with London boroughs to introduce more 20mph limits, looking to remove the most dangerous Heavy Goods Vehicles from the Capital’s roads by 2020 and continuing our road safety education and enforcement programmes.”