Serious A725 crash in North Lanarkshire on 13 August 1983 at 20:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A725 in North Lanarkshire at 20:30 on Saturday 13 August 1983. The 32-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Aug 1983
- Saturday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.81812, longitude -4.03964, in the ML4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198397PC01908
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 725
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 22 November 1989.
Serious
Van crash on the A725 in North Lanarkshire, 22 November 1989
At the same spotRef 198997PC05011
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the A725 in North Lanarkshire, 20 November 1993
At the same spotRef 199397PC04111
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A775 in North Lanarkshire, 30 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199897PC05610
Slight
Audi Q3 crash on the A725 in North Lanarkshire, 28 October 2025
10 m awayRef 2025991702330
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the A725 in North Lanarkshire, 20 May 2003
36 m awayRef 200397ND70205
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A725 in North Lanarkshire, 30 July 2023
37 m awayRef 2023991335586
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 32, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 198397PC01908 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 1983.