B8049 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 23 August 1984 at 14:25 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the B8049 in East Dunbartonshire at 14:25 on Thursday 23 August 1984. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 1984
- Thursday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92018, longitude -4.31548, in the G61 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bearsden.
Map of where the crash happened in East Dunbartonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198497CD01608
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8049
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 serious injury crash on 16 December 1994.
Serious
Fiat Cinquecento crash on the B8049 in East Dunbartonshire, 16 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199497CD02012
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B8049 in East Dunbartonshire, 9 December 2002
72 m awayRef 200297CD02612
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the B8049 in East Dunbartonshire, 25 February 1990
100 m awayRef 199097CD03502
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B8049 in East Dunbartonshire, 11 April 1995
141 m awayRef 199597CD01504
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B8049 in East Dunbartonshire, 24 December 1984
141 m awayRef 198497CD04412
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the B8049 in East Dunbartonshire, 16 August 2005
198 m awayRef 200597CD03608
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 198497CD01608 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 1984.