Serious A803 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 25 January 1986 at 08:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A803 in East Dunbartonshire at 08:00 on Saturday 25 January 1986. A 32-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Jan 1986
- Saturday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94861, longitude -4.13459, in the G66 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Dunbartonshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198697DC08101
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 803
- 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 1990.
Slight
Car crash on the A803 in East Dunbartonshire, 7 February 1990
At the same spotRef 199097DC02202
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B8023 in East Dunbartonshire, 1 April 1997
At the same spotRef 199797DC00204
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A803 in East Dunbartonshire, 11 August 1995
At the same spotRef 199597DC03708
Serious
Car crash on the A891 in East Dunbartonshire, 26 April 1987
At the same spotRef 198797DC06804
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A803 in East Dunbartonshire, 3 September 2006
36 m awayRef 200697CD01209
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B8023 in East Dunbartonshire, 24 June 2015
39 m awayRef 201597BF03206
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198697DC08101 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 1986.