A80 crash in North Lanarkshire on 23 March 2017 at 19:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Nissan Juke were involved in a crash on the A80 in North Lanarkshire at 19:45 on Thursday 23 March 2017. A 15-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta and the 52-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2017
- Thursday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Nissan Juke
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.90892, longitude -4.08201, in the G69 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gartcosh, Glenboig and Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire, G69 0BN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201797NC03403
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 80
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 2017.
Slight
Renault Modus crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 14 June 2017
1 m awayRef 201797NC75206
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A80 in North Lanarkshire, 23 April 2007
3 m awayRef 200797NC03304
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A80 in North Lanarkshire, 30 September 2004
3 m awayRef 200497NC05209
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A80 in North Lanarkshire, 22 July 2019
7 m awayRef 2019970860393
Serious
ERF crash on the A80 in North Lanarkshire, 1 February 2000
9 m awayRef 200097NC00402
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A80 in North Lanarkshire, 27 January 1999
9 m awayRef 199997NC04901
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Juke
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 201797NC03403 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.