A726 crash in South Lanarkshire on 18 February 2005 at 19:05 involving a Honda CRV
A Honda CRV and a Fiat Stilo were involved in a crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire at 19:05 on Friday 18 February 2005. The 39-year-old male driver of the Fiat Stilo, a 35-year-old female passenger in the Honda CRV and the 57-year-old female driver of the Honda CRV were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 2005
- Friday, 19:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CRV and Fiat Stilo
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.77096, longitude -4.22678, in the G74 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Kilbride West, South Lanarkshire, G79 1AA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200597QA03202
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 August 2014.
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 7 August 2014
8 m awayRef 201497QA01208
Slight
Daihatsu Charade crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 28 August 2000
10 m awayRef 200097QA04508
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 28 October 2000
10 m awayRef 200097QA05110
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 6 August 1997
14 m awayRef 199797QA01208
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 28 October 1998
14 m awayRef 199897QA07110
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the B767 in South Lanarkshire, 23 September 1990
14 m awayRef 199097QA04409
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CRV
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Road works
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Stilo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,747 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Stilo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda CRV)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda CRV)
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 200597QA03202 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.