A71 crash in South Lanarkshire on 14 May 2008 at 20:45 involving a Peugeot 206
A car and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the A71 in South Lanarkshire at 20:45 on Wednesday 14 May 2008. The 19-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 206 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 May 2008
- Wednesday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.67609, longitude -4.0652, in the ML10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Strathaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Avondale and Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire, ML10 6AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200897QA02105
- Council area
- South Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 71
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 2015.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 13 January 2015
30 m awayRef 201597QA01101
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in South Lanarkshire, 16 September 2000
40 m awayRef 200097QA03809
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 24 April 1981
50 m awayRef 198197QA04704
Slight
Car crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 15 July 1987
50 m awayRef 198797QA02207
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in South Lanarkshire, 22 October 1985
50 m awayRef 198597QA05510
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 5 November 1998
50 m awayRef 199897QA05511
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
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 200897QA02105 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 2008.