Serious unclassified road crash in Sutton SM1 on 16 December 2017 at 17:00 involving a Ford Kuga
A Ford Kuga hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sutton at 17:00 on Saturday 16 December 2017. A 32-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Kuga
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36843, longitude -0.20052, in the SM1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sutton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sutton North, Sutton, SM1 2PQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sutton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010081285
- Council area
- Sutton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Authorised person
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 2009.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Sutton, 12 October 2009
At the same spotRef 200901ZT80376
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Sutton, 13 May 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010ZP0521
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Sutton, 1 February 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010ZP0107
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Sutton, 30 September 1998
At the same spotRef 199801ZP00901
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Sutton, 28 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200101ZP00650
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sutton, 18 January 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010ZP0048
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Kuga
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Kuga)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2017010081285 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.