A724 crash in South Lanarkshire on 20 September 2017 at 12:40 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio hit a pedestrian on the A724 in South Lanarkshire at 12:40 on Wednesday 20 September 2017. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 2017
- Wednesday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.79477, longitude -4.09507, in the G72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blantyre. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, G72 0NN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201797QB02409
- Council area
- South Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 724
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A724 in South Lanarkshire, 17 September 2005
6 m awayRef 200597QB05609
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in South Lanarkshire, 15 December 2000
6 m awayRef 200097QB03312
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A724 in South Lanarkshire, 15 January 2016
7 m awayRef 201697QB02601
Slight
Volvo 460 crash on the A724 in South Lanarkshire, 23 January 2006
9 m awayRef 200697QB06501
Serious
Car crash on the A724 in South Lanarkshire, 19 November 2001
10 m awayRef 200197QB71411
Slight
Volvo crash on the A724 in South Lanarkshire, 15 December 2013
10 m awayRef 201397QB02012
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 201797QB02409 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Lanarkshire road accident statistics for 2017.