B761 crash in South Lanarkshire on 1 September 2004 at 18:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B761 in South Lanarkshire at 18:00 on Wednesday 1 September 2004. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Sep 2004
- Wednesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.76734, longitude -4.19357, in the G74 postcode district and within the built-up area of East Kilbride. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Kilbride West, South Lanarkshire, G74 4UL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200497QA70109
- Council area
- South Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 761
- 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
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2014.
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on the B761 in South Lanarkshire, 2 December 2014
8 m awayRef 201497QA00312
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B761 in South Lanarkshire, 12 September 2001
14 m awayRef 200197QA02009
Slight
Car crash on the B761 in South Lanarkshire, 6 November 2001
30 m awayRef 200197QA00911
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B761 in South Lanarkshire, 16 January 1999
30 m awayRef 199997QA70101
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B761 in South Lanarkshire, 17 November 2015
30 m awayRef 201597QA01611
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the B761 in South Lanarkshire, 12 December 2001
32 m awayRef 200197QA02612
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200497QA70109 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 2004.