Serious A724 crash in South Lanarkshire on 20 November 2025 at 17:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on the A724 in South Lanarkshire at 17:00 on Thursday 20 November 2025. A 65-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Nov 2025
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.77965, longitude -4.06175, in the ML3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hamilton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hamilton North and East, South Lanarkshire, ML3 0DF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025991671428
- Council area
- South Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 724
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 June 2019.
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A724 in South Lanarkshire, 5 June 2019
4 m awayRef 201997QB00106
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A724 in South Lanarkshire, 21 December 2012
7 m awayRef 201297QB04112
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 13 August 2007
9 m awayRef 200797QB03908
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in South Lanarkshire, 23 August 2022
11 m awayRef 2022991212963
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A724 in South Lanarkshire, 17 March 2004
17 m awayRef 200497QB70803
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A724 in South Lanarkshire, 7 December 2004
19 m awayRef 200497QB02112
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 86 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 65, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2025991671428 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.