A726 crash in South Lanarkshire on 31 January 2000 at 03:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire at 03:30 on Monday 31 January 2000. A 22-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 50 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 2000
- Monday, 03:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.77087, longitude -4.22693, in the G74 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200097QA05301
- Council area
- South Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 726
- 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
- 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 23 September 1990.
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the B767 in South Lanarkshire, 23 September 1990
At the same spotRef 199097QA04409
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 6 August 1997
At the same spotRef 199797QA01208
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 28 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199897QA07110
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 9 February 1994
At the same spotRef 199497QA02702
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 23 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199897QA03603
Serious
Renault 11 crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 25 November 1991
At the same spotRef 199197QA06511
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200097QA05301 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 2000.