C road crash in Sutton SM5 on 22 December 2018 at 12:40 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on a C road in Sutton at 12:40 on Saturday 22 December 2018. The 61-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa 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
- 22 Dec 2018
- Saturday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38421, longitude -0.17404, in the SM5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sutton. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Helier West, Sutton, SM5 1AJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sutton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010157949
- Council area
- Sutton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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 24 May 2000.
Slight
Nissan Cherry crash on a C road in Sutton, 24 May 2000
At the same spotRef 200001ZP00419
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Sutton, 7 February 2020
5 m awayRef 2020010235219
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on a C road in Sutton, 26 June 2001
10 m awayRef 200101ZP00341
Slight
Honda C90 crash on a C road in Sutton, 8 September 2001
10 m awayRef 200101ZP00485
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Sutton, 19 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199901ZP01040
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Sutton, 26 July 2002
10 m awayRef 200201ZT00323
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 2018010157949 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.