M80 crash in North Lanarkshire on 23 January 2016 at 05:15 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5 crashed on the M80 in North Lanarkshire at 05:15 on Saturday 23 January 2016. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 2016
- Saturday, 05:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda MX-5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92487, longitude -4.04803, in the G67 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201697NC01901
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 80
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 2013.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the M80 in North Lanarkshire, 25 November 2013
4 m awayRef 201397NC02411
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M80 in North Lanarkshire, 6 October 2016
4 m awayRef 201697NC00610
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M80 in North Lanarkshire, 2 May 2025
14 m awayRef 2025991585041
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M80 in North Lanarkshire, 30 March 2016
26 m awayRef 201697NC03603
Slight
MAN crash on the A80 in North Lanarkshire, 30 April 1999
30 m awayRef 199997NC05404
Serious
Car crash on the A80 in North Lanarkshire, 9 July 1983
30 m awayRef 198397NC01107
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,840 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda MX-5)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
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 201697NC01901 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 2016.