A721 crash in North Lanarkshire on 27 November 2016 at 01:30 involving a Volkswagen Passat taxi
A Volkswagen Passat taxi hit a pedestrian on the A721 in North Lanarkshire at 01:30 on Sunday 27 November 2016. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 2016
- Sunday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.77503, longitude -3.93896, in the ML2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wishaw. It is one of the crashes that make up the Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig, North Lanarkshire, ML2 0NH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201697NE04811
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 721
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 June 2002.
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire, 1 June 2002
5 m awayRef 200297NE00106
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire, 31 October 2002
5 m awayRef 200297NE07110
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire, 29 July 2013
8 m awayRef 201397NE03807
Fatal
Iveco-Ford crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire, 21 November 2002
15 m awayRef 200297NE70411
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire, 10 December 2001
15 m awayRef 200197NE03412
Slight
Subaru Legacy crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire, 14 October 2009
25 m awayRef 200997NE02610
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201697NE04811 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.