A726 crash in South Lanarkshire on 12 April 1989 at 09:15 involving a lorry
A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire at 09:15 on Wednesday 12 April 1989. The 34-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Apr 1989
- Wednesday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.67471, longitude -4.07034, in the ML10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Strathaven.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198997QA01804
- Council area
- South Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 726
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198997QA01804 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 1989.