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Serious A8011 crash in North Lanarkshire on 18 October 1997 at 00:45 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A8011 in North Lanarkshire at 00:45 on Saturday 18 October 1997. A 60-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 50 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
18 Oct 1997
Saturday, 00:45
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94931, longitude -3.98567, in the G67 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cumbernauld.

Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199797NC02610
Council area
North Lanarkshire
Police force
Strathclyde

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
8011
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
50 mph
Urban or rural
Urban

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
Dark, street lights lit
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 2 December 1982.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver age
    38 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge

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 199797NC02610 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Lanarkshire road accident statistics for 1997.