A73 crash in North Lanarkshire on 30 December 1979 at 12:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A73 in North Lanarkshire at 12:40 on Sunday 30 December 1979. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 1979
- Sunday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197997PB05112
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 73
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 197997PB05112 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.