A723 crash in North Lanarkshire on 15 July 2017 at 14:20 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A723 in North Lanarkshire at 14:20 on Saturday 15 July 2017. The 33-year-old female driver of the Toyota Yaris and a 37-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Yaris were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 2017
- Saturday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.80081, longitude -3.96432, in the ML1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Motherwell North, North Lanarkshire, ML1 4FT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201797NE75407
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 723
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 7029
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 2018.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A723 in North Lanarkshire, 16 June 2018
9 m awayRef 201897NE75406
Serious
Honda CG125 crash on the A723 in North Lanarkshire, 30 July 2014
11 m awayRef 201497NE70507
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A723 in North Lanarkshire, 12 March 2016
12 m awayRef 201697NE02403
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A723 in North Lanarkshire, 12 November 2024
15 m awayRef 2024991517692
Slight
Citroen Dispatch crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 12 October 2016
18 m awayRef 201697NE02710
Slight
Honda VTR1000F crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 4 October 2010
22 m awayRef 201097NE00710
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,261 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 201797NE75407 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.