Unclassified road crash in North Lanarkshire ML6 on 11 December 2003 at 20:30 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire at 20:30 on Thursday 11 December 2003. A 13-year-old female passenger, a 14-year-old female passenger and the 17-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 2003
- Thursday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87864, longitude -3.92838, in the ML6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plains.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200397NA03212
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 2016.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A89 in North Lanarkshire, 5 February 2016
18 m awayRef 201697NA00502
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A89 in North Lanarkshire, 16 February 2012
20 m awayRef 201297NA03002
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A89 in North Lanarkshire, 11 May 2023
21 m awayRef 2023991306416
Serious
Car crash on the A89 in North Lanarkshire, 19 July 1986
50 m awayRef 198697NB03007
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A89 in North Lanarkshire, 5 December 1983
50 m awayRef 198397NB01212
Serious
Car crash on the B803 in North Lanarkshire, 21 December 1982
50 m awayRef 198297NB05412
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200397NA03212 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 2003.