A81 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 7 May 2007 at 09:15 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane crashed on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire at 09:15 on Monday 7 May 2007. The 24-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 May 2007
- Monday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95371, longitude -4.29397, in the G62 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Dunbartonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200797CD01505
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 81
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 16 July 2007
14 m awayRef 200797CD02807
Serious
Car crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 10 June 1983
36 m awayRef 198397DC03606
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 4 April 1993
36 m awayRef 199397DC02504
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 7 October 2000
58 m awayRef 200097CD00910
Serious
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 25 August 1998
106 m awayRef 199897CD01908
Slight
Leyland DAF 200 crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 13 December 1996
193 m awayRef 199697DC04412
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
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 200797CD01505 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 2007.