B7070 crash in North Lanarkshire on 2 March 1985 at 02:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B7070 in North Lanarkshire at 02:00 on Saturday 2 March 1985. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 1985
- Saturday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.81563, longitude -4.02674, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198597PC00403
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7070
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 9 January 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B7070 in North Lanarkshire, 9 January 1986
At the same spotRef 198697PC01201
Slight
Car crash on the B7070 in North Lanarkshire, 29 November 1988
At the same spotRef 198897PC06811
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B7070 in North Lanarkshire, 17 June 1994
At the same spotRef 199497PC02406
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B7070 in North Lanarkshire, 17 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199497PC03212
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B7070 in North Lanarkshire, 17 March 1994
At the same spotRef 199497PC03303
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B7070 in North Lanarkshire, 25 May 1995
At the same spotRef 199597PC02205
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198597PC00403 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 1985.