A891 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 18 February 2005 at 14:05 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A891 in East Dunbartonshire at 14:05 on Friday 18 February 2005. The 63-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 2005
- Friday, 14:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.96991, longitude -4.1938, in the G66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lennoxtown. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bishopbriggs North and Campsie, East Dunbartonshire, G66 7DQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Dunbartonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200597CD04802
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 891
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 14 January 2009.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A891 in East Dunbartonshire, 14 January 2009
At the same spotRef 200997BF02601
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 16 December 2008
10 m awayRef 200897BF04012
Slight
Car crash on the A819 in East Dunbartonshire, 18 November 1989
28 m awayRef 198997DC05811
Slight
Lorry crash on the A871 in East Dunbartonshire, 25 September 1989
28 m awayRef 198997DC05909
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A891 in East Dunbartonshire, 11 March 2003
50 m awayRef 200397CD01303
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A891 in East Dunbartonshire, 2 April 1997
82 m awayRef 199797DC00304
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 200597CD04802 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 2005.