A775 crash in North Lanarkshire on 8 October 2004 at 14:45 involving a Ford Escort
A motorcycle and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A775 in North Lanarkshire at 14:45 on Friday 8 October 2004. The 47-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Oct 2004
- Friday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.82736, longitude -3.94899, in the ML1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Holytown.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200497ND70210
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 775
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 37%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 63%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2018.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A775 in North Lanarkshire, 7 June 2018
27 m awayRef 201897ND00306
Slight
Citroen XM crash on the B7066 in North Lanarkshire, 7 February 2003
30 m awayRef 200397ND01602
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A775 in North Lanarkshire, 14 February 2013
33 m awayRef 201397ND01602
Slight
Ford crash on the A775 in North Lanarkshire, 10 February 1995
41 m awayRef 199597PC01502
Slight
Car crash on the B7066 in North Lanarkshire, 25 January 1988
61 m awayRef 198897PC05001
Fatal
Car crash on the A775 in North Lanarkshire, 30 January 1989
61 m awayRef 198997PC06501
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 47, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200497ND70210 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 2004.