A73 crash in North Lanarkshire on 2 September 2019 at 20:37 involving a Porsche 911
A Porsche 911 crashed on the A73 in North Lanarkshire at 20:37 on Monday 2 September 2019. The 55-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Sep 2019
- Monday, 20:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Porsche 911
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.79101, longitude -3.88196, in the ML2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newmains.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019970876239
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 73
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 73
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 July 2020.
Serious
Scania crash on the A73 in North Lanarkshire, 13 July 2020
4 m awayRef 2020990963934
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A73 in North Lanarkshire, 24 June 2001
7 m awayRef 200197NE04306
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A73 in North Lanarkshire, 13 July 2001
15 m awayRef 200197NE02107
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on the A73 in North Lanarkshire, 22 November 2018
23 m awayRef 201897NE01111
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A73 in North Lanarkshire, 29 January 2000
26 m awayRef 200097PB04101
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A73 in North Lanarkshire, 2 September 2001
39 m awayRef 200197NE00109
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Porsche 911
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Porsche 911)
- 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 2019970876239 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 2019.