B272 crash in Sutton on 21 January 2018 at 16:00 involving a Renault Clio
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2018
- Sunday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35071, longitude -0.13702, in the SM6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sutton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wallington South, Sutton, SM6 9NU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010084967
- Council area
- Sutton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 272
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 1990.
Slight
Car crash on the B272 in Sutton, 21 October 1990
10 m awayRef 199001ZP01178
Slight
Car crash on the B272 in Sutton, 31 March 1984
20 m awayRef 198401ZP00349
Fatal
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the B272 in Sutton, 14 January 2006
20 m awayRef 200601TE00006
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B272 in Sutton, 28 December 2025
30 m awayRef 2025010617707
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B272 in Sutton, 14 December 1990
32 m awayRef 199001ZP01435
Serious
Car crash on the B272 in Sutton, 24 July 1987
40 m awayRef 198701ZP00702
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018010084967 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 2018.