B7066 crash in North Lanarkshire on 27 May 2015 at 12:15 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a car were involved in a crash on the B7066 in North Lanarkshire at 12:15 on Wednesday 27 May 2015. The 32-year-old male driver of the car and a 4-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 May 2015
- Wednesday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.80865, longitude -3.95265, in the ML1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Motherwell. It is one of the crashes that make up the Motherwell North, North Lanarkshire, ML1 5AY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201597ND01405
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7066
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A723 in North Lanarkshire, 23 August 1986
22 m awayRef 198697PC03008
Slight
Car crash on the A723 in North Lanarkshire, 22 July 1986
22 m awayRef 198697PC01407
Slight
Car crash on the B7066 in North Lanarkshire, 18 July 2006
22 m awayRef 200697ND02607
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B7066 in North Lanarkshire, 30 July 2007
22 m awayRef 200797ND02407
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A723 in North Lanarkshire, 14 March 1997
22 m awayRef 199797PC01703
Slight
Citroen AX crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 14 May 1997
22 m awayRef 199797PC02005
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: 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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201597ND01405 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 2015.