A722 crash in North Lanarkshire on 11 September 2000 at 10:20 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the A722 in North Lanarkshire at 10:20 on Monday 11 September 2000. The 61-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Sep 2000
- Monday, 10:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.78259, longitude -3.88041, in the ML2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newmains.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200097PB01109
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 722
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 2016.
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire, 18 November 2016
8 m awayRef 201697NE75111
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A722 in North Lanarkshire, 24 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199997PB05211
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A722 in North Lanarkshire, 7 March 2000
10 m awayRef 200097PB00703
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A722 in North Lanarkshire, 16 February 2017
10 m awayRef 201797NE03102
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the A722 in North Lanarkshire, 20 March 2016
11 m awayRef 201697NE70203
Serious
Car crash on the A722 in North Lanarkshire, 23 November 2020
21 m awayRef 2020991000898
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object off carriageway
- Submerged in water
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,043 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 200097PB01109 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 2000.