A723 crash in South Lanarkshire on 17 September 2003 at 09:30 involving a Nissan X-Trail
A Nissan X-Trail and a Peugeot 406 were involved in a crash on the A723 in South Lanarkshire at 09:30 on Wednesday 17 September 2003. The 55-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 406, a 38-year-old female passenger in the Nissan X-Trail and the 34-year-old male driver of the Nissan X-Trail were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2003
- Wednesday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan X-Trail and Peugeot 406
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.68608, longitude -4.05904, in the ML10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Strathaven.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200397QA03009
- Council area
- South Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 723
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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 15 February 2012.
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the A723 in South Lanarkshire, 15 February 2012
10 m awayRef 201297QA02002
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A723 in South Lanarkshire, 5 October 2004
61 m awayRef 200497QA01810
Slight
Dacia Sandero crash on the A723 in South Lanarkshire, 10 November 2016
63 m awayRef 201697QA01811
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A723 in South Lanarkshire, 8 March 1991
149 m awayRef 199197QA01603
Slight
MG ZS crash on the A723 in South Lanarkshire, 19 January 2023
158 m awayRef 2023991304103
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A723 in South Lanarkshire, 21 July 2011
196 m awayRef 201197QA03107
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan X-Trail
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,184 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 406)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan X-Trail)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan X-Trail)
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 200397QA03009 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 2003.