A726 crash in South Lanarkshire on 13 March 1992 at 07:45 involving a Peugeot 309
A Peugeot 309 and a Land Rover Discovery were involved in a crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire at 07:45 on Friday 13 March 1992. The 19-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 309 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow and high winds on a single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Mar 1992
- Friday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 309 and Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.69166, longitude -4.0776, in the ML10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199297QA03403
- 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
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Snowing with high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 1990.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 7 October 1990
At the same spotRef 199097QA01510
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 7 October 1997
At the same spotRef 199797QA00910
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 2 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199897QA00508
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 17 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199897QA03910
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 20 December 2011
45 m awayRef 201197QA04112
Fatal
Ford Transit crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 1 April 2023
48 m awayRef 2023991292795
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,294 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,528 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
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 199297QA03403 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 1992.