A726 crash in South Lanarkshire on 21 June 2025 at 13:30 involving a Hyundai Tucson
A Hyundai Tucson hit a pedestrian on the A726 in South Lanarkshire at 13:30 on Saturday 21 June 2025. A 52-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jun 2025
- Saturday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai Tucson
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.75852, longitude -4.1748, in the G75 postcode district and within the built-up area of East Kilbride. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Kilbride Central North, South Lanarkshire, G74 1ND area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025991605880
- Council area
- South Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 726
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 726
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
- 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, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 March 1988.
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 17 March 1988
36 m awayRef 198897QA03103
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 9 June 1994
36 m awayRef 199497QA01306
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 15 October 1982
36 m awayRef 198297QA02710
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 28 October 2006
43 m awayRef 200697QA07110
Fatal
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 7 December 2022
49 m awayRef 2022991251465
Serious
Suzuki GSXR crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 10 October 2025
56 m awayRef 2025991652904
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Tucson
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 52, hit by vehicle 1 (Hyundai Tucson)
- Pedestrian location
- On refuge, central island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2025991605880 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 2025.