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Serious A726 crash in South Lanarkshire on 11 January 1999 at 17:45 involving a Fiat Cinquecento

A Fiat Cinquecento and a Peugeot 205 were involved in a crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire at 17:45 on Monday 11 January 1999. The 47-year-old female driver of the Fiat Cinquecento was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
11 Jan 1999
Monday, 17:45
Vehicles
2
Fiat Cinquecento and Peugeot 205
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.69242, longitude -4.07751, in the ML10 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in South Lanarkshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199997QA01801
Council area
South Lanarkshire
Police force
Strathclyde
Police attended the scene
No

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
726
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
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, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, 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 3 December 2003.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Fiat Cinquecento

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    47 years
    Engine capacity
    899 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    3 years

  • Vehicle 2: Peugeot 205

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years
    Engine capacity
    1,124 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    11 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Female, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Cinquecento)

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 199997QA01801 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 1999.