Serious unclassified road crash in East Dunbartonshire G61 on 18 November 1983 at 01:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire at 01:00 on Friday 18 November 1983. A 41-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Nov 1983
- Friday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92936, longitude -4.35285, in the G61 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198397CD01711
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 15 August 1988
100 m awayRef 198897CD01508
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 16 June 1985
100 m awayRef 198597CD02606
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 24 December 1998
100 m awayRef 199897CD02112
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A810 in East Dunbartonshire, 2 April 1990
100 m awayRef 199097CD00204
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 26 May 2006
102 m awayRef 200697CD05805
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B8050 in East Dunbartonshire, 14 July 1983
141 m awayRef 198397CD02007
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198397CD01711 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Dunbartonshire road accident statistics for 1983.