A726 crash in South Lanarkshire on 4 June 2025 at 16:38 involving a Renault Kangoo van
A Renault Kangoo van and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire at 16:38 on Wednesday 4 June 2025. The 36-year-old male driver of the Renault Kangoo van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jun 2025
- Wednesday, 16:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Kangoo and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.76725, longitude -4.21873, in the G74 postcode district and within the built-up area of East Kilbride. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Kilbride West, South Lanarkshire, G79 1AA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025991622194
- 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
- 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 23 August 2015
5 m awayRef 201597QA70608
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 20 February 2009
6 m awayRef 200997QA04602
Serious
Triumph Sprint RS crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 12 July 2005
13 m awayRef 200597QA01307
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 7 December 1999
13 m awayRef 199997QA02212
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 13 July 2012
13 m awayRef 201297QA00907
Slight
Suzuki Liana crash on the A726 in South Lanarkshire, 5 December 2008
13 m awayRef 200897QA00712
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Kangoo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Kangoo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025991622194 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.