B754 crash in North Lanarkshire on 7 December 2018 at 04:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B754 in North Lanarkshire at 04:00 on Friday 7 December 2018. The 17-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2018
- Friday, 04:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.75476, longitude -3.91321, in the ML2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Overtown.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897NE00812
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 754
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 August 2006.
Slight
Tractor crash on the B754 in North Lanarkshire, 29 August 2006
16 m awayRef 200697NE06008
Serious
Car crash on the B754 in North Lanarkshire, 8 March 1984
35 m awayRef 198497PB00803
Serious
Car crash on the A71 in North Lanarkshire, 29 February 1980
35 m awayRef 198097PB03502
Slight
Van crash on the B754 in North Lanarkshire, 26 September 1989
35 m awayRef 198997PB04509
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire, 21 June 1995
35 m awayRef 199597PB03106
Slight
Car crash on the B754 in North Lanarkshire, 5 April 1995
35 m awayRef 199597PB01004
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 201897NE00812 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.