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Serious A721 crash in North Lanarkshire on 26 November 1983 at 16:25 involving a taxi

A taxi and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire at 16:25 on Saturday 26 November 1983. A 15-year-old female pedestrian hit by the taxi was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
26 Nov 1983
Saturday, 16:25
Vehicles
2
Taxi and bus or coach
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.81045, longitude -4.0137, in the ML4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bellshill.

Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198397PC04811
Council area
North Lanarkshire
Police force
Strathclyde

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
721
Road type
Dual 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
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Other
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 1988.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    61 years

  • Vehicle 2: Bus or coach

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    32 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from nearside, 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 198397PC04811 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.