Serious A775 crash in North Lanarkshire on 18 June 2009 at 18:15 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series hit a pedestrian on the A775 in North Lanarkshire at 18:15 on Thursday 18 June 2009. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jun 2009
- Thursday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.82279, longitude -3.97047, in the ML1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Holytown. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mossend and Holytown, North Lanarkshire, ML1 4RB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200997ND01406
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 775
- 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
- Dry
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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A725 in North Lanarkshire, 13 April 2007
28 m awayRef 200797ND01604
Serious
Car crash on the A775 in North Lanarkshire, 21 June 1985
51 m awayRef 198597PC03806
Slight
Car crash on the A775 in North Lanarkshire, 28 July 1989
51 m awayRef 198997PC03607
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 8 July 2025
52 m awayRef 2025991630595
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A775 in North Lanarkshire, 11 January 2008
54 m awayRef 200897ND01101
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A775 in North Lanarkshire, 8 February 2018
55 m awayRef 201897ND75402
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
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
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
- 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 200997ND01406 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 2009.