A721 crash in North Lanarkshire on 17 September 2008 at 09:30 involving a Renault Megane
A vehicle and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire at 09:30 on Wednesday 17 September 2008. The 36-year-old female driver of the Renault Megane was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2008
- Wednesday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.8206, longitude -4.03868, in the ML4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, ML4 3DP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200897ND01909
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 721
- Road type
- Roundabout
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 725
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 May 2012.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
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 200897ND01909 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 2008.