B7066 crash in North Lanarkshire on 11 April 2003 at 10:00 involving a Citroen Xantia
A car and a Citroen Xantia were involved in a crash on the B7066 in North Lanarkshire at 10:00 on Friday 11 April 2003. The 69-year-old male driver of the Citroen Xantia and the 55-year-old male driver of the car were 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
- 11 Apr 2003
- Friday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Citroen Xantia
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.85409, longitude -3.80526, in the ML7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fortissat, North Lanarkshire, ML7 5TH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200397NE02304
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7066
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 March 2005.
Slight
Iveco crash on the B7066 in North Lanarkshire, 7 March 2005
10 m awayRef 200597NA00903
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B7066 in North Lanarkshire, 2 April 2005
10 m awayRef 200597NE00304
Serious
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the B7066 in North Lanarkshire, 12 November 2002
10 m awayRef 200297NE70111
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the B7066 in North Lanarkshire, 22 December 2004
10 m awayRef 200497NE06112
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B7066 in North Lanarkshire, 5 February 2004
14 m awayRef 200497NE00902
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the M8 in North Lanarkshire, 25 February 1991
14 m awayRef 199197PB06502
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Xantia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Xantia)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, 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 200397NE02304 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.