A24 crash in Sutton on 30 December 2017 at 00:42 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A24 in Sutton at 00:42 on Saturday 30 December 2017. A 22-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 00:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38578, longitude -0.21148, in the SM3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sutton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stonecot, Sutton, SM3 9HJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sutton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010080753
- Council area
- Sutton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 24
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 279
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 2005.
Slight
Car crash on the B279 in Sutton, 19 August 2005
At the same spotRef 200501ZT80402
Slight
Car crash on the A24 in Sutton, 29 January 1985
At the same spotRef 198501ZP00096
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A24 in Sutton, 10 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801ZP01151
Slight
Car crash on the A24 in Sutton, 13 June 1984
At the same spotRef 198401ZP00660
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A24 in Sutton, 6 March 2005
At the same spotRef 200501ZT80100
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A24 in Sutton, 20 February 2008
At the same spotRef 200801ZT80049
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
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 2017010080753 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 2017.