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M74 crash in South Lanarkshire on 6 March 1997 at 19:10 involving a Honda Civic

A Honda Civic hit a pedestrian on the M74 in South Lanarkshire at 19:10 on Thursday 6 March 1997. A 48-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
6 Mar 1997
Thursday, 19:10
Vehicles
1
Honda Civic
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.77715, longitude -4.01677, in the ML3 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in South Lanarkshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199797QB01903
Council area
South Lanarkshire
Police force
Strathclyde

Road and location details

First road class
Motorway
First road number
74
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
70 mph
Urban or rural
Rural

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Motorway
Second road number
74

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 1986.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Honda Civic

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    25 years
    Engine capacity
    1,493 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    0 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 48, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)

    Pedestrian location
    In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 199797QB01903 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 1997.