A809 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 28 November 2002 at 16:45 involving a Rover 800 Series
A Rover 800 Series and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A809 in East Dunbartonshire at 16:45 on Thursday 28 November 2002. The 35-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier and the 41-year-old male driver of the Rover 800 Series were 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
- 28 Nov 2002
- Thursday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 800 Series and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92626, longitude -4.34357, 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 3RR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Dunbartonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200297CD07011
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 809
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 809
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 2009.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A809 in East Dunbartonshire, 21 November 2009
At the same spotRef 200997BF04311
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A809 in East Dunbartonshire, 16 August 2007
At the same spotRef 200797CD03008
Slight
Porsche 911 crash on the A809 in East Dunbartonshire, 8 May 2008
At the same spotRef 200897BF01405
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A809 in East Dunbartonshire, 28 July 2021
5 m awayRef 2021991071376
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A809 in East Dunbartonshire, 24 September 2016
5 m awayRef 201697BF05809
Serious
Volvo XC60 crash on the A809 in East Dunbartonshire, 29 March 2025
6 m awayRef 2025991571070
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 800 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 800 Series)
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 200297CD07011 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.