Unclassified road crash in South Lanarkshire ML12 on 10 March 2011 at 08:50 involving a Volkswagen Caddy
A Volkswagen Caddy hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire at 08:50 on Thursday 10 March 2011. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2011
- Thursday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Caddy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.62311, longitude -3.52145, in the ML12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Biggar.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201197QC01703
- Council area
- South Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 1995.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 17 January 1995
41 m awayRef 199597QC03601
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 23 September 1983
41 m awayRef 198397QC05809
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 4 June 1993
61 m awayRef 199397QC01006
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 28 October 1983
98 m awayRef 198397QC07010
Serious
Car crash on the A702 in South Lanarkshire, 3 June 1989
98 m awayRef 198997QC00806
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 18 March 1993
98 m awayRef 199397QC04503
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Caddy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Caddy)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201197QC01703 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 2011.