Unclassified road crash in West Dunbartonshire G83 on 25 December 2002 at 17:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Vauxhall Astravan were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Dunbartonshire at 17:00 on Wednesday 25 December 2002. The 23-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astravan and the 21-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa 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 junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2002
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Vauxhall Astravan
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.98968, longitude -4.58345, in the G83 postcode district and within the built-up area of Alexandria. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leven, West Dunbartonshire, G83 0LZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Dunbartonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200297LA03512
- Council area
- West Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 2019.
Slight
Renault Grand Scenic crash on an unclassified road in West Dunbartonshire, 14 November 2019
14 m awayRef 2019970898720
Serious
Toyota crash on the B857 in West Dunbartonshire, 18 June 2002
14 m awayRef 200297LA03406
Slight
Dennis crash on the B857 in West Dunbartonshire, 21 April 2005
20 m awayRef 200597LA03104
Fatal
Seddon/Atkinson crash on the B857 in West Dunbartonshire, 16 September 2003
20 m awayRef 200397LA70609
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in West Dunbartonshire, 9 January 2004
22 m awayRef 200497LA01301
Slight
Car crash on the B857 in West Dunbartonshire, 13 October 1984
54 m awayRef 198497LG01110
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astravan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astravan)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200297LA03512 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Dunbartonshire road accident statistics for 2002.