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Unclassified road crash in East Dunbartonshire G66 on 14 October 1997 at 23:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire at 23:00 on Tuesday 14 October 1997. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
14 Oct 1997
Tuesday, 23:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94037, longitude -4.14374, in the G66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kirkintilloch.

Map of where the crash happened in East Dunbartonshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199797DC02010
Council area
East Dunbartonshire
Police force
Strathclyde

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban

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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 34 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 November 2020.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 199797DC02010 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 1997.