Unclassified road crash in Sutton SM3 on 14 July 2023 at 18:25 involving a Ford Fusion
A Ford Fusion and a goods vehicle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sutton at 18:25 on Friday 14 July 2023. The 59-year-old male driver of the Ford Fusion was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 2023
- Friday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fusion and goods vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37634, longitude -0.21418, in the SM3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sutton. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Cheam, Sutton, SM3 9TU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sutton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023010458122
- Council area
- Sutton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 October 1982.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Sutton, 6 October 1982
4 m awayRef 1982010ZP1191
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Sutton, 21 October 1982
4 m awayRef 1982010ZP1276
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Sutton, 18 August 1986
4 m awayRef 198601ZP00874
Slight
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on a C road in Sutton, 14 October 1997
4 m awayRef 199701ZP00992
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on a C road in Sutton, 27 August 2025
11 m awayRef 2025010594223
Serious
Aprilia crash on a C road in Sutton, 9 December 2000
11 m awayRef 200001ZP00831
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fusion)
- 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 2023010458122 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 2023.