13 women and 2 men were injured in early 1967 one Friday when a minibus taking workers home from a factory in East Kilbride, collided with a double decker bus at the junction of Bardykes Road and Glasgow Road. Both drivers and 12 passengers from the mini bus and one from the double decker […]
On Monday 16th January 1967, the first phase of the EK Expressway was still being constructed and as normal, traffic coming from East Kilbride could only get into Blantyre by the Stoneymeadow Road, the quickest route at the time. That day, a lorry driver sped down the Stoneymeadow Road heading towards Blantyre and his […]
This wonderful photo originated from Kenneth McVicar and came to me via Historic Hamilton. In the early 1960’s an accident involving a lorry and the side of the Bothwell Bridge took place. Whilst nobody was injured too badly, the contents of the lorry spilled out over the bridge and into the River Clyde below. […]
On Saturday afternoon of 11th August 1934, at the Whistleberry Bridge, Blantyre, a motor delivery lorry belonging to Messrs Elder & Fyffe, banana merchants, Motherwell, was involved in a smash, and the driver had a remarkable escape from serious injury. The lorry swerved to avoid a collision with another car and cycle, and ran on […]
A spectacular crash by a bicycle Into an oncoming Motor Car occurred on the Stoneymeadow Road on Saturday 27th July 1935. The fatal road accident occurred in the vicinity of Stoneymeadow, midway between High Blantyre and East Kilbride, on that Saturday night. James Dyet (49), 82 Sempie Road. Burnbank, Hamilton, who was riding a push cycle […]
On Saturday 25th November 1950, on the main Stoneymeadow Road between Blantyre and East Kilbride, the Chieftain Double Decker bus smashed into a lorry. The bus was packed with local Blantyre people and 13 people were injured including workers in the lorry. Emergency services were fast to the scene and the injured were taken to […]