Teenager hospitalised after being hit by car
FRASER WILSON
A teenager was left needing hospital treatment after being hit by a car on Lickprivick Road on Friday night.
Emergency services raced to the scene in Greenhills around 7pm on August 14 closing off the road to motorists and pedestrians for a number of hours.
The boy’s injuries were not thought to be life-threatening and police say they are not pursuing any criminality regarding the accident.
A spokesowman for Police Scotland told the News: “We were called around 6.55pm to a report of a collision involving a car and a pedestrian on Lickprivick Road.
“Police attended and conveyed a 17-year-old male to Hairmyres Hospital where he was treated for non-life threatening injuries.
“He was left in the care of hospital staff and police are not persuing any criminality regarding the incident.”
A resident who lives near to Lickprivick Road told the News the collision happened on an accident black spot.
She said the accident appeared to happen on the middle of the road
“where the two bus stops are at underneath the bridge”.
Our source, who does not wish to be named, said: “There’s been a few people knocked down at the same part of the road prior to this.
“It is very unsafe as the cars do come up it at some speed. The police have had the road shut off since around 7.20pm tonight and are still there at this moment.
“There was a woman who had pulled in at the bus stop and she was there from the start. She’s just pulled away so I think she was the one involved.
“She was in tears when I walked down. Just horrible to see.”
Also on Friday there was a serious crash on High Blantyre Road, which caused traffic chaos leading to the East Kilbride Expressway blocked earlier.
Police were called to the scene at around 11.55am where a van hit a pedestrian on High Blantyre Road in Hamilton.
A man was taken to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital with serious injuries. The road was closed and reopened around 5pm.
Anyone with any information on that incident should call police on 101.
Information can be left anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.