Serious A809 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 10 July 2003 at 06:50 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A809 in East Dunbartonshire at 06:50 on Thursday 10 July 2003. The 33-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Jul 2003
- Thursday, 06:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92635, longitude -4.34358, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200397CD02007
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 810
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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 April 2000.
Slight
Car crash on the A809 in East Dunbartonshire, 30 April 2000
At the same spotRef 200097CD06004
Slight
Volvo S80 crash on the A809 in East Dunbartonshire, 18 January 2010
At the same spotRef 201097BF02801
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A809 in East Dunbartonshire, 19 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200397CD04912
Slight
Jaguar S Type crash on the A809 in East Dunbartonshire, 1 February 2008
At the same spotRef 200897BF00202
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 (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 200397CD02007 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 2003.