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Serious unclassified road crash in North Lanarkshire G68 on 16 February 1982 at 22:45 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire at 22:45 on Tuesday 16 February 1982. The 36-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy roundabout with a 60 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Feb 1982
Tuesday, 22:45
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93033, longitude -4.04713, in the G68 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198297NC03602
Council area
North Lanarkshire
Police force
Strathclyde

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
60 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 2025.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    36 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 36, 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 198297NC03602 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 1982.