Serious unclassified road crash in East Dunbartonshire G66 on 11 July 2008 at 16:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire at 16:00 on Friday 11 July 2008. A 5-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Jul 2008
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97127, longitude -4.19292, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200897BF02407
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 1998.
Slight
Skoda Felicia crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 2 August 1998
50 m awayRef 199897DC00108
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 30 April 2005
58 m awayRef 200597CD06304
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 12 June 1981
92 m awayRef 198197DC02706
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 11 July 1981
92 m awayRef 198197DC02807
Slight
Lorry crash on the A871 in East Dunbartonshire, 25 September 1989
136 m awayRef 198997DC05909
Slight
Car crash on the A819 in East Dunbartonshire, 18 November 1989
136 m awayRef 198997DC05811
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200897BF02407 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 2008.