A81 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 28 October 2002 at 22:05 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire at 22:05 on Monday 28 October 2002. The 26-year-old female driver 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
- 28 Oct 2002
- Monday, 22:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92332, longitude -4.31826, in the G61 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bearsden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bearsden North, East Dunbartonshire, G61 3DL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200297CD06310
- 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
- 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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 July 2018.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 26 July 2018
13 m awayRef 201897GJ00507
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 15 January 2003
22 m awayRef 200397CD02501
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 22 January 2019
29 m awayRef 201997GJ00501
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 7 October 2014
30 m awayRef 201497BF00610
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 18 November 2020
44 m awayRef 2020990999822
Serious
Audi A1 crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 24 August 2024
47 m awayRef 2024991483583
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,989 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 200297CD06310 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 2002.