B8049 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 6 June 1998 at 23:00 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the B8049 in East Dunbartonshire at 23:00 on Saturday 6 June 1998. A 17-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jun 1998
- Saturday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92311, longitude -4.30285, in the G61 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199897CD00406
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8049
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 April 1989.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 22 April 1989
100 m awayRef 198997CA03304
Serious
Car crash on the B8049 in East Dunbartonshire, 16 October 1987
100 m awayRef 198797CD01410
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the B8049 in East Dunbartonshire, 27 July 1999
141 m awayRef 199997CD52207
Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on the B8049 in East Dunbartonshire, 25 May 2001
170 m awayRef 200197CD04805
Slight
Van crash on the B8049 in East Dunbartonshire, 25 June 1985
224 m awayRef 198597CD03806
Fatal
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on the B8049 in East Dunbartonshire, 29 June 1995
224 m awayRef 199597CD70306
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- 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 199897CD00406 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 1998.