Serious A721 crash in North Lanarkshire on 15 January 2019 at 17:00 involving a Mazda 2
A Mazda 2 hit a pedestrian on the A721 in North Lanarkshire at 17:00 on Tuesday 15 January 2019. A 14-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jan 2019
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.78168, longitude -3.97357, in the ML1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Motherwell. It is one of the crashes that make up the Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig, North Lanarkshire, ML1 2UD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201997NE00501
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 721
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 March 2001.
Serious
Bus crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire, 9 March 2001
5 m awayRef 200197NE01803
Serious
Car crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire, 11 March 2015
6 m awayRef 201597NE70403
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire, 24 October 2018
18 m awayRef 201897NE01510
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire, 12 January 2009
24 m awayRef 200997NE01401
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire, 31 August 2012
27 m awayRef 201297NE03508
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A721 in North Lanarkshire, 2 November 2005
27 m awayRef 200597NE00411
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 2)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201997NE00501 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.