A81 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 7 October 2000 at 11:45 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire at 11:45 on Saturday 7 October 2000. A 23-year-old female passenger and the 28-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2000
- Saturday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95325, longitude -4.29442, in the G62 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200097CD00910
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 81
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 August 1998.
Serious
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 25 August 1998
50 m awayRef 199897CD01908
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 16 July 2007
57 m awayRef 200797CD02807
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 7 May 2007
58 m awayRef 200797CD01505
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 4 April 1993
92 m awayRef 199397DC02504
Serious
Car crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 10 June 1983
92 m awayRef 198397DC03606
Slight
Leyland DAF 200 crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 13 December 1996
136 m awayRef 199697DC04412
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,764 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 200097CD00910 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 2000.