A726 crash in South Lanarkshire on 16 January 2005 at 17:30 involving a Rover 45
A Rover 45 and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire at 17:30 on Sunday 16 January 2005. The 30-year-old female driver of the Rover 45 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 2005
- Sunday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 45 and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.76529, longitude -4.21258, in the G74 postcode district and within the built-up area of East Kilbride.
Map of where the crash happened in South Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200597QA02201
- Council area
- South Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 726
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 44 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 July 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 2 July 2014
44 m awayRef 201497QA00107
Serious
Car crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 17 October 1982
54 m awayRef 198297QA02510
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 14 October 2013
65 m awayRef 201397QA01010
Slight
Car crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 27 January 2019
70 m awayRef 201997QA01401
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 12 April 2005
73 m awayRef 200597QA02104
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 19 December 2016
90 m awayRef 201697QA03212
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 45
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 45)
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 200597QA02201 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 2005.