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Serious A70 crash in North Lanarkshire on 14 April 1980 at 09:15 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A70 in North Lanarkshire at 09:15 on Monday 14 April 1980. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
Serious
Date
14 Apr 1980
Monday, 09:15
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.83995, longitude -4.09349, in the G71 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198097RB02004
Council area
North Lanarkshire
Police force
Strathclyde

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
70
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Human crossing control by school crossing patrol

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 September 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    31 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 198097RB02004 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 1980.