Unclassified road crash in North Lanarkshire ML6 on 18 December 2017 at 14:00 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire at 14:00 on Monday 18 December 2017. The 61-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus and the 26-year-old male driver of the Honda Civic were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2017
- Monday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86137, longitude -3.94931, in the ML6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Airdrie. It is one of the crashes that make up the Airdrie South, North Lanarkshire, ML6 8LR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201797NA02912
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 49 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 8 April 1982
49 m awayRef 198297NB01904
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 26 May 1981
51 m awayRef 198197NB03605
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 12 June 1986
51 m awayRef 198697NB03006
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 8 October 1981
51 m awayRef 198197NB01810
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 16 December 1984
51 m awayRef 198497NB03112
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 12 September 1997
51 m awayRef 199797NB02009
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
- 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 201797NA02912 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 2017.