An accident involving two cars has blocked the A24 southbound at the junction with B279 Sutton Common Road/Tudor Drive.

Two Mercedes cars, one black and one green, were involved in the crash. The green car mounted the pavement on the central refuge at the crossing and collided with the guard railing protecting the refuge. The black car collided with the side of the green car.

Police, fire and ambulance crews are attending the scene. There is no sign of any serious injuries. Both vehicles are clear of occupants.

Traffic is blocked from flowing south across the junction from Epsom Road into Stonecot Hill. Southbound drivers can turn left at the junction and then immediately right into Woodstock Rise to come back onto Stonecot Hill via Hill Top.

Northbound and west to eastbound traffic is flowing normally.

Traffic eastbound from Sutton Common Road into Tudor Drive may be disrupted.

Stonecot Hill has a new community noticeboard thanks to Sutton Council’s Cheam North and Worcester Park Local Committee chaired by Stonecot councillor Abigail Lock. The board is sited at the end of the green next to the alleyway to Dudley Drive.

We’re waiting to find out who’s got the keys to the doors and what it will be used for but we understand that it’s likely to be for notices local to the neighbourhood rather than the borough-wide information that appears on the council noticeboard across the road.

The Cheam North and Worcester Park Local Committee next meets this Thursday 5 November, 7.30pm at St Bede’s Centre in St Anthony’s Hospital, North Cheam. The committee discusses a wide range of issues about the local neighbourhood and has a budget for improvements to streets and parks which is spent at the request of local people. Everyone is welcome to attend the committee and get involved.

If you’re keen to attend regularly you might like to subscribe to the committee’s calendar using your calendar software (Outlook, Google Calendar, iCal, etc.)

It’s back and better than ever. We’ve revived our text message alert system for traffic wardens on Stonecot Hill which was discontinued a few months ago when Twitter stopped sending text messages to mobile phones.

Now the Twitter text message service is back on for O2 and Vodaphone customers and we’ve revamped the alert system to make it much faster and more reliable than before.

The new system also monitors Transport for London’s CCTV camera at the junction of Stonecot Hill and Hill Top which also issues parking tickets (though bizarrely TfL claims to have no idea how many).

If you’re already a Twitter member, just follow @stonecotparking and enable text message alerts for that account. If you’re not, here’s how you get going:

1. Join Twitter

Go to the signup page and create yourself an account.

2. Connect your mobile phone to your Twitter account

Now you’re signed up and logged in, go to the Devices page in your account settings and let Twitter know your phone number. You can leave the “device updates” setting Off as you’ll just be enabling text messages coming from a single account (@stonecotparking).

3. Follow @stonecotparking

Go to @stonecotparking’s page and click the big Follow button at the top. You should see a green tick and the word “Following”.

4. Turn on device updates for @stonecotparking

Click the circular mobile phone icon next to where it says “Following”. It should turn green, meaning you’ll get text message alerts whenever there’s a new update from @stonecotparking.

That’s it. While we can’t guarantee this system to be 100% reliable, when there are wardens about or the CCTV camera is working you’ll probably get a text message to let you know.

A shopkeeper has received minor injuries after tripping over a broken bollard on Stonecot Hill this morning.

Steve Brown from double glazing firm GSA Plastics was unloading a delivery lorry outside his shop when he fell over the bollard. He suffered minor cuts and bruising.

Mr Brown said, “I’m not happy about this but in some ways it was a lucky escape. Normally I’d be carrying glass and I could have cut my head off. What we need here is a loading bay so we can unload right outside our shop rather than having to carry glass across two pavements.”

The broken bollard was first reported on 28 September to Transport for London, who manage Stonecot Hill’s streets and pavements. A TfL manager is investigating the incident.

Have you seen any broken bollards, dangerous pavements, flytipping or graffiti on Stonecot Hill? Report it at the Fix My Street website or straight from the street with the Fix My Street iPhone app.

Twitter members can now follow Stonecot Hill News at http://twitter.com/stonecothill (or follow @stonecothill from your client).

Our Twitter feed includes all headlines from this website, smaller updates that don’t make it into a full story here (or are breaking news) and the occasional link to other sources with local information.

Hope to see you all there.