B8050 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 2 July 1988 at 18:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the B8050 in East Dunbartonshire at 18:50 on Saturday 2 July 1988. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 1988
- Saturday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93394, longitude -4.34832, in the G61 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Dunbartonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198897CD00307
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8050
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 July 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B8050 in East Dunbartonshire, 8 July 2007
32 m awayRef 200797CD01407
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B8050 in East Dunbartonshire, 28 January 2007
36 m awayRef 200797CD06501
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the B8050 in East Dunbartonshire, 6 June 2025
47 m awayRef 2025991599698
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 14 March 2000
50 m awayRef 200097CD04103
Serious
Honda CBR600F crash on the B8050 in East Dunbartonshire, 18 April 2004
57 m awayRef 200497CD02604
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 3 February 2014
96 m awayRef 201497BF00302
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198897CD00307 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 1988.