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Serious unclassified road crash in West Dunbartonshire G81 on 17 December 1982 at 15:40 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Dunbartonshire at 15:40 on Friday 17 December 1982. A 7-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
17 Dec 1982
Friday, 15:40
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91088, longitude -4.42533, in the G81 postcode district and within the built-up area of Clydebank.

Map of where the crash happened in West Dunbartonshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198297BC04012
Council area
West Dunbartonshire
Police force
Strathclyde

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
50 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Other junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
B
Second road number
8014

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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 1988.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    28 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 198297BC04012 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Dunbartonshire road accident statistics for 1982.