A89 crash in North Lanarkshire on 29 September 2018 at 12:00 involving a Toyota Aygo
A Toyota Aygo, a Seat Toledo taxi and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A89 in North Lanarkshire at 12:00 on Saturday 29 September 2018. The 45-year-old female driver of the Seat Toledo taxi and a 15-year-old male passenger in the Toyota Aygo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 2018
- Saturday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Toyota Aygo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86292, longitude -3.99862, in the ML6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Airdrie. It is one of the crashes that make up the Airdrie Central, North Lanarkshire, ML5 3RT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897NA01409
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 89
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 2022.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A89 in North Lanarkshire, 28 October 2022
6 m awayRef 2022991235725
Slight
MG TF crash on the A89 in North Lanarkshire, 29 June 2016
8 m awayRef 201697NA04806
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the A89 in North Lanarkshire, 4 September 2024
10 m awayRef 2024991487346
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A80 in North Lanarkshire, 6 October 1999
11 m awayRef 199997NB01410
Serious
FSO Cars Polonez crash on the A89 in North Lanarkshire, 23 August 1991
17 m awayRef 199197NB03808
Fatal
Car crash on the A89 in North Lanarkshire, 9 December 1984
17 m awayRef 198497NB01012
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Seat Toledo
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 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 45, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Toledo)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Aygo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 201897NA01409 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 2018.