Serious A812 crash in West Dunbartonshire on 22 October 2007 at 00:12 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on the A812 in West Dunbartonshire at 00:12 on Monday 22 October 2007. A 23-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Oct 2007
- Monday, 00:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95572, longitude -4.58679, in the G82 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Dunbartonshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200797LA04810
- Council area
- West Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 812
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 1984.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A812 in West Dunbartonshire, 11 October 1984
50 m awayRef 198497LA01510
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A812 in West Dunbartonshire, 25 February 1984
50 m awayRef 198497LA02202
Slight
Car crash on the A812 in West Dunbartonshire, 16 August 1981
112 m awayRef 198197LA01708
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A812 in West Dunbartonshire, 28 November 1997
112 m awayRef 199797LA71111
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A812 in West Dunbartonshire, 28 January 1993
112 m awayRef 199397LA02101
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A813 in West Dunbartonshire, 7 January 1986
112 m awayRef 198697LA00401
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 23, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200797LA04810 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 2007.