B757 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 7 December 2001 at 02:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B757 in East Dunbartonshire at 02:30 on Friday 7 December 2001. A 20-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, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2001
- Friday, 02:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94122, longitude -4.15919, in the G66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kirkintilloch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kirkintilloch East and North and Twechar, East Dunbartonshire, G66 1JB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200197CD01212
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 757
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 820
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 December 2004.
Slight
Car crash on the B820 in East Dunbartonshire, 30 December 2004
At the same spotRef 200497CD07212
Serious
Scania crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 26 May 2007
At the same spotRef 200797CD05405
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 18 October 2002
10 m awayRef 200297CD04910
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 31 August 2004
14 m awayRef 200497CD05908
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 14 July 2014
20 m awayRef 201497BF02307
Slight
Bus crash on the B757 in East Dunbartonshire, 3 October 2002
22 m awayRef 200297CD00510
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 200197CD01212 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 2001.