A721 crash in North Lanarkshire on 29 January 2017 at 14:50 involving a Nissan Note
A Nissan Note hit a pedestrian on the A721 in North Lanarkshire at 14:50 on Sunday 29 January 2017. An 85-year-old male pedestrian was 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
- 29 Jan 2017
- Sunday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Note
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.7769, longitude -3.94871, 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
- 201797NE04701
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 40%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 60%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 2025.
Slight
MG HS crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire, 15 March 2025
30 m awayRef 2025991567269
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire, 27 July 2015
44 m awayRef 201597NE03307
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 18 April 1996
60 m awayRef 199697PB70304
Slight
Renault 25 crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire, 11 August 1991
60 m awayRef 199197PB02308
Slight
Car crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire, 21 October 1980
60 m awayRef 198097PB01310
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 3 April 1986
60 m awayRef 198697PB00304
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,386 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 85, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Note)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 201797NE04701 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.