Serious B761 crash in South Lanarkshire on 14 November 2007 at 16:00 involving an MG ZR
An MG ZR hit a pedestrian on the B761 in South Lanarkshire at 16:00 on Wednesday 14 November 2007. A 15-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Nov 2007
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- MG ZR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.76345, longitude -4.1696, 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 Central North, South Lanarkshire, G74 1ND area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200797QA03211
- 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
- Frost or ice
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 2004.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B761 in South Lanarkshire, 29 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200497QA06710
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the B761 in South Lanarkshire, 21 August 2003
10 m awayRef 200397QA04408
Serious
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 1 November 1999
22 m awayRef 199997QA01711
Serious
Lorry crash on the B761 in South Lanarkshire, 22 November 1979
50 m awayRef 197997QA03011
Slight
Car crash on the B761 in South Lanarkshire, 25 August 1980
50 m awayRef 198097QA03208
Slight
Mitsubishi Lancer crash on the B761 in South Lanarkshire, 21 March 2017
57 m awayRef 201797QA02003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MG ZR
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (MG ZR)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200797QA03211 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 2007.