A812 crash in West Dunbartonshire on 7 February 1993 at 02:55 involving a Nissan Bluebird
A Nissan Bluebird crashed on the A812 in West Dunbartonshire at 02:55 on Sunday 7 February 1993. The 22-year-old male driver and a 19-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Feb 1993
- Sunday, 02:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Bluebird
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95789, longitude -4.58849, in the G82 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199397LA00902
- Council area
- West Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 812
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 82
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 1993.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A812 in West Dunbartonshire, 13 December 1993
At the same spotRef 199397LA01612
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A812 in West Dunbartonshire, 17 November 1992
At the same spotRef 199297LA02111
Serious
Van crash on the A812 in West Dunbartonshire, 19 September 1980
At the same spotRef 198097LA02109
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A812 in West Dunbartonshire, 4 April 1997
At the same spotRef 199797LG00604
Slight
Bus crash on the A812 in West Dunbartonshire, 18 December 1980
At the same spotRef 198097LA02712
Slight
Toyota crash on the A812 in West Dunbartonshire, 24 January 1994
At the same spotRef 199497LA02401
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
- 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 199397LA00902 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 1993.