A73 crash in North Lanarkshire on 12 July 2016 at 21:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A73 in North Lanarkshire at 21:00 on Tuesday 12 July 2016. The 51-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo and the 24-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jul 2016
- Tuesday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.78573, longitude -3.87839, in the ML2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Murdostoun, North Lanarkshire, ML2 9EY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201697NE01507
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 73
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 June 2014.
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A73 in North Lanarkshire, 22 June 2014
4 m awayRef 201497NE03406
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A73 in North Lanarkshire, 30 October 1993
8 m awayRef 199397PB05610
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A73 in North Lanarkshire, 19 October 1994
8 m awayRef 199497PB03510
Serious
Vauxhall Belmont crash on the A73 in North Lanarkshire, 27 April 1991
8 m awayRef 199197PB05004
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A722 in North Lanarkshire, 12 April 1999
8 m awayRef 199997PB01004
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A73 in North Lanarkshire, 28 January 1997
8 m awayRef 199797PB03601
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 201697NE01507 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.