A726 crash in South Lanarkshire on 27 April 2009 at 02:20 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A726 in South Lanarkshire at 02:20 on Monday 27 April 2009. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Apr 2009
- Monday, 02:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.75088, longitude -4.15328, in the G75 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Kilbride South, South Lanarkshire, G75 0RS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200997QA03304
- 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
- 60 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 28%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 72%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 2013.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A762 in South Lanarkshire, 24 December 2013
9 m awayRef 201397QA03312
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 18 September 2017
58 m awayRef 201797QA00709
Serious
Van crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 5 September 1983
58 m awayRef 198397QA01209
Serious
Car crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 27 September 1987
58 m awayRef 198797QA06309
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 4 June 1990
58 m awayRef 199097QA00706
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 11 September 1992
58 m awayRef 199297QA02609
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 200997QA03304 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 2009.