A726 crash in South Lanarkshire on 23 August 2007 at 08:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the A726 in South Lanarkshire at 08:00 on Thursday 23 August 2007. A 14-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 23 Aug 2007
- Thursday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.71129, longitude -4.09905, in the ML10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200797QA04708
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 2003.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 24 November 2003
14 m awayRef 200397QA05311
Serious
Car crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 29 January 1983
28 m awayRef 198397QA05401
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 5 January 1998
28 m awayRef 199897QA00401
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 9 July 1994
28 m awayRef 199497QA02907
Slight
Vauxhall crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 16 September 1994
28 m awayRef 199497QA03709
Fatal
Car crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 15 June 1986
82 m awayRef 198697QA02006
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 200797QA04708 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.