B758 crash in South Lanarkshire on 21 March 2018 at 07:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B758 in South Lanarkshire at 07:00 on Wednesday 21 March 2018. The 24-year-old male driver 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
- 21 Mar 2018
- Wednesday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.78897, longitude -4.10819, in the G72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blantyre.
Map of where the crash happened in South Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897QB00903
- Council area
- South Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 758
- 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
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 January 2007.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 8 January 2007
24 m awayRef 200797QB01401
Serious
Kia Rio crash on the B758 in South Lanarkshire, 27 October 2015
25 m awayRef 201597QB06410
Slight
Renault Modus crash on the B758 in South Lanarkshire, 23 July 2015
67 m awayRef 201597QB03607
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B758 in South Lanarkshire, 9 March 1993
86 m awayRef 199397QB02403
Serious
Car crash on the B7580 in South Lanarkshire, 25 July 1980
86 m awayRef 198097QB05007
Serious
Car crash on the B758 in South Lanarkshire, 23 May 1985
86 m awayRef 198597QB08805
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 201897QB00903 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 2018.