B761 crash in South Lanarkshire on 19 November 2015 at 20:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Nissan Juke were involved in a crash on the B761 in South Lanarkshire at 20:00 on Thursday 19 November 2015. A 1-year-old male passenger in the Nissan Juke and the 38-year-old female driver of the Nissan Juke were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 2015
- Thursday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Nissan Juke
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.7671, longitude -4.19802, in the G74 postcode district and within the built-up area of East Kilbride. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Kilbride Central South, South Lanarkshire, G75 8LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201597QA01711
- Council area
- South Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 761
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 2008.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B761 in South Lanarkshire, 7 October 2008
4 m awayRef 200897QA01510
Slight
Vauxhall Movano crash on the B761 in South Lanarkshire, 13 August 2015
9 m awayRef 201597QA01408
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the B761 in South Lanarkshire, 24 December 1998
27 m awayRef 199897QA05612
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 21 October 1988
27 m awayRef 198897QA05610
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B761 in South Lanarkshire, 12 November 1990
27 m awayRef 199097QA03311
Serious
Car crash on the B761 in South Lanarkshire, 15 September 1989
27 m awayRef 198997QA01809
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Juke
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 1, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Juke)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Juke)
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 201597QA01711 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 2015.