Serious A726 crash in South Lanarkshire on 25 March 2010 at 20:10 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris hit a pedestrian on the A726 in South Lanarkshire at 20:10 on Thursday 25 March 2010. A 15-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Mar 2010
- Thursday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.71199, longitude -4.10004, in the ML10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201097QA04603
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 40 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 August 1998.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in South Lanarkshire, 27 August 1998
40 m awayRef 199897QA04708
Fatal
Car crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 15 June 1986
40 m awayRef 198697QA02006
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 9 May 2001
45 m awayRef 200197QA01505
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 4 October 1996
60 m awayRef 199697QA01310
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 24 November 2003
86 m awayRef 200397QA05311
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 23 August 2007
100 m awayRef 200797QA04708
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201097QA04603 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.