A723 crash in South Lanarkshire on 17 March 2010 at 09:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A723 in South Lanarkshire at 09:45 on Wednesday 17 March 2010. A 15-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 17 Mar 2010
- Wednesday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.68018, longitude -4.06239, 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
- 201097QA03403
- Council area
- South Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 723
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Authorised person
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by school crossing patrol
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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 1999.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 4 December 1999
10 m awayRef 199997QA01012
Serious
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 6 March 2008
40 m awayRef 200897QA01503
Slight
Car crash on the A723 in South Lanarkshire, 18 February 1983
81 m awayRef 198397QA03202
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 22 January 1988
92 m awayRef 198897QA06001
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A723 in South Lanarkshire, 18 August 1997
92 m awayRef 199797QA03408
Serious
Car crash on the A723 in South Lanarkshire, 3 November 1982
92 m awayRef 198297QA00611
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 201097QA03403 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 2010.