Serious A726 crash in South Lanarkshire on 4 July 1993 at 20:05 involving a Fiat Panda
A Fiat Panda crashed on the A726 in South Lanarkshire at 20:05 on Sunday 4 July 1993. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jul 1993
- Sunday, 20:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Panda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.66357, longitude -3.92666, in the ML11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199397QC01707
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 1 March 1993.
Fatal
Ford Sierra crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 1 March 1993
At the same spotRef 199397QC00303
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Ford Transit crash on the B7078 in South Lanarkshire, 22 January 1995
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Car crash on the B7086 in South Lanarkshire, 22 November 2004
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B7078 in South Lanarkshire, 6 July 1993
141 m awayRef 199397QC02607
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Panda
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 903 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Panda)
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 199397QC01707 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 1993.