A725 crash in North Lanarkshire on 6 November 1987 at 07:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A725 in North Lanarkshire at 07:40 on Friday 6 November 1987. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Nov 1987
- Friday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.83359, longitude -4.02767, in the ML4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198797NA00611
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 17 January 1989.
Serious
Van crash on the A725 in North Lanarkshire, 17 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198997PC04601
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A725 in North Lanarkshire, 28 November 1994
At the same spotRef 199497PC04811
Serious
Volvo crash on the A725 in North Lanarkshire, 1 March 2000
61 m awayRef 200097PC00203
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A725 in North Lanarkshire, 20 February 2023
85 m awayRef 2023991278362
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A725 in North Lanarkshire, 3 December 2019
86 m awayRef 2019970905243
Slight
MAN crash on the A725 in North Lanarkshire, 26 February 2025
96 m awayRef 2025991558527
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, 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 198797NA00611 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 1987.