A237 crash in Sutton on 9 December 2003 at 10:55 involving a Subaru Impreza
A Subaru Impreza and a Mercedes 300 were involved in a crash on the A237 in Sutton at 10:55 on Tuesday 9 December 2003. The 33-year-old male driver of the Subaru Impreza was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2003
- Tuesday, 10:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Subaru Impreza and Mercedes 300
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37919, longitude -0.15556, in the SM6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sutton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hackbridge, Sutton, CR4 4LT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sutton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301ZT00514
- Council area
- Sutton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 237
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 277
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 2013.
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A237 in Sutton, 29 December 2013
At the same spotRef 201301ZT80452
Serious
Ford Capri crash on the A237 in Sutton, 29 May 1993
10 m awayRef 199301ZP00509
Slight
Tractor crash on the A237 in Sutton, 17 June 2008
10 m awayRef 200801ZT80241
Slight
Fiat Regata crash on the A237 in Sutton, 1 March 1994
10 m awayRef 199401ZP00182
Slight
Car crash on the A237 in Sutton, 19 November 1996
10 m awayRef 199601ZP01087
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A237 in Sutton, 29 November 2003
10 m awayRef 200301ZT00495
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Impreza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Mercedes 300
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Impreza)
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 200301ZT00514 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sutton road accident statistics for 2003.