A726 crash in South Lanarkshire on 28 May 1981 at 07:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A726 in South Lanarkshire at 07:30 on Thursday 28 May 1981. The 32-year-old male driver, a 34-year-old male passenger and a 29-year-old male passenger were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 28 May 1981
- Thursday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.68192, longitude -4.06913, in the ML10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Strathaven.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198197QA04205
- Council area
- South Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 726
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 19 May 1996
At the same spotRef 199697QA04105
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 28 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199597QA07712
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 2 June 1999
At the same spotRef 199997QA00206
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 3 December 1999
10 m awayRef 199997QA00612
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 8 August 2017
36 m awayRef 201797QA00608
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 19 August 1995
100 m awayRef 199597QA03408
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198197QA04205 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Lanarkshire road accident statistics for 1981.