A803 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 21 July 2001 at 01:00 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on the A803 in East Dunbartonshire at 01:00 on Saturday 21 July 2001. A 15-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
- 21 Jul 2001
- Saturday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94802, longitude -4.13507, in the G66 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200197CD03207
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 803
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 2017.
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A803 in East Dunbartonshire, 1 January 2017
23 m awayRef 201797GJ70101
Slight
Car crash on the A803 in East Dunbartonshire, 13 January 2005
36 m awayRef 200597CD01801
Slight
Car crash on the A803 in East Dunbartonshire, 19 February 1987
42 m awayRef 198797DC05602
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B8023 in East Dunbartonshire, 24 December 1991
42 m awayRef 199197DC10512
Fatal
Austin Metro crash on the A803 in East Dunbartonshire, 12 April 1992
42 m awayRef 199297DC02304
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A803 in East Dunbartonshire, 11 September 1992
42 m awayRef 199297DC02409
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,304 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
- 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 200197CD03207 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.