Serious B8048 crash in North Lanarkshire on 29 January 2007 at 08:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the B8048 in North Lanarkshire at 08:00 on Monday 29 January 2007. The 34-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Jan 2007
- Monday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94778, longitude -4.04344, in the G68 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cumbernauld North, North Lanarkshire, G68 9LQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200797NC05101
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8048
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 2016.
Slight
Car crash on the B802 in North Lanarkshire, 20 December 2016
21 m awayRef 201697NC02612
Serious
Car crash on the B8048 in North Lanarkshire, 21 March 1986
32 m awayRef 198697NC02903
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 4 September 2008
32 m awayRef 200897NC00909
Serious
Kia Niro crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 5 March 2019
34 m awayRef 201997NC00103
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the B8048 in North Lanarkshire, 28 March 2014
55 m awayRef 201497NC03003
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B8048 in North Lanarkshire, 8 March 2025
66 m awayRef 2025991563860
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 200797NC05101 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 2007.