A723 crash in North Lanarkshire on 26 January 1987 at 12:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A723 in North Lanarkshire at 12:15 on Monday 26 January 1987. A 4-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 1987
- Monday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.80597, longitude -3.95762, in the ML1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Motherwell.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198797PC03901
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 723
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by school crossing patrol
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 13 December 1987.
Serious
Bus crash on the A723 in North Lanarkshire, 13 December 1987
At the same spotRef 198797PC04612
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B7066 in North Lanarkshire, 2 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199897PC00410
Serious
Taxi crash on the A723 in North Lanarkshire, 10 June 1980
At the same spotRef 198097PC01806
Slight
Car crash on the A723 in North Lanarkshire, 5 October 1987
At the same spotRef 198797PC00510
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on the B7066 in North Lanarkshire, 12 November 2025
13 m awayRef 2025991667558
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B7066 in North Lanarkshire, 26 May 2010
22 m awayRef 201097ND01905
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198797PC03901 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.