B743 crash in South Lanarkshire on 16 April 2002 at 12:45 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on the B743 in South Lanarkshire at 12:45 on Tuesday 16 April 2002. The 54-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2002
- Tuesday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.57713, longitude -4.09775, in the ML10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200297QA02404
- Council area
- South Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 743
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 167 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 2025.
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the B743 in South Lanarkshire, 25 January 2025
167 m awayRef 2025991546187
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B743 in South Lanarkshire, 25 July 2021
168 m awayRef 2021991069887
Slight
Car crash on the B743 in South Lanarkshire, 14 April 1998
186 m awayRef 199897QA02104
Slight
Toyota Hilux crash on the B743 in South Lanarkshire, 27 February 2002
433 m awayRef 200297QA05902
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B743 in South Lanarkshire, 15 December 2003
448 m awayRef 200397QA03812
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the B743 in South Lanarkshire, 7 June 2017
536 m awayRef 201797QA75106
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 54, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 200297QA02404 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 2002.