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Fatal unclassified road crash in South Lanarkshire ML10 on 30 March 1988 at 14:30 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire at 14:30 on Wednesday 30 March 1988. A 67-year-old male pedestrian was killed.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Fatal
Date
30 Mar 1988
Wednesday, 14:30
Vehicles
1
Bus or coach
Casualties
1
1 killed

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.67656, longitude -4.06725, in the ML10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Strathaven.

Map of where the crash happened in South Lanarkshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198897QA06803
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
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
726

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 1982.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bus or coach

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    59 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Fatal

    Male, aged 67, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 198897QA06803 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 1988.