Unclassified road crash in North Lanarkshire ML5 on 16 May 2003 at 12:10 involving a Mazda 323
A Mazda 323 and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire at 12:10 on Friday 16 May 2003. The 31-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 May 2003
- Friday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 323 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.84933, longitude -4.03539, in the ML5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coatbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Coatbridge West, North Lanarkshire, ML5 5LG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200397NA04005
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 2005.
Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 13 August 2005
10 m awayRef 200597NA02508
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 24 October 1980
50 m awayRef 198097NA03910
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 1 February 1985
50 m awayRef 198597NA00202
Serious
Vauxhall Belmont crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 18 March 1999
54 m awayRef 199997NA02403
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 17 August 1987
67 m awayRef 198797NA01908
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 3 September 1984
67 m awayRef 198497NA00709
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,489 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 200397NA04005 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.