A721 crash in North Lanarkshire on 26 December 1979 at 22:15 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A721 in North Lanarkshire at 22:15 on Wednesday 26 December 1979. A 44-year-old male pedestrian was slightly 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: Slight
Date: 26 Dec 1979; Wednesday, 22:15
Vehicles: 1; Motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197997PB04512
Council area: North Lanarkshire
Police force: Strathclyde

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 721
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Stop sign
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

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
East
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
18 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from driver's offside

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 197997PB04512 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Lanarkshire road accident statistics for 1979.