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A813 crash in West Dunbartonshire on 23 October 1993 at 21:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo

A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the A813 in West Dunbartonshire at 21:30 on Saturday 23 October 1993. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
23 Oct 1993
Saturday, 21:30
Vehicles
1
Volkswagen Polo
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9656, longitude -4.56337, in the G82 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bonhill and Renton.

Map of where the crash happened in West Dunbartonshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199397LA01810
Council area
West Dunbartonshire
Police force
Strathclyde

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
813
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
Unclassified

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
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 April 1998.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    23 years
    Engine capacity
    1,043 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    10 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)

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 199397LA01810 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.