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Unclassified road crash in South Lanarkshire ML8 on 15 December 1987 at 16:10 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire at 16:10 on Tuesday 15 December 1987. A 5-year-old female 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
15 Dec 1987
Tuesday, 16:10
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.7542, longitude -3.87694, in the ML8 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in South Lanarkshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198797QC05512
Council area
South Lanarkshire
Police force
Strathclyde

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
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, 100 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 June 1990.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    37 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 5, 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 198797QC05512 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Lanarkshire road accident statistics for 1987.