A891 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 16 March 2011 at 16:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on the A891 in East Dunbartonshire at 16:00 on Wednesday 16 March 2011. A 65-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 16 Mar 2011
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97444, longitude -4.20175, 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
- 201197BF03603
- 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
- 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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 1995.
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A891 in East Dunbartonshire, 4 September 1995
At the same spotRef 199597DC01509
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A891 in East Dunbartonshire, 24 March 1991
At the same spotRef 199197DC06903
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the A891 in East Dunbartonshire, 26 November 1990
At the same spotRef 199097DC09011
Serious
Rover 800 Series crash on the A891 in East Dunbartonshire, 4 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199597DC01303
Serious
Car crash on the A891 in East Dunbartonshire, 24 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198897DC05703
Slight
Land Rover 90 crash on the A891 in East Dunbartonshire, 16 January 1991
At the same spotRef 199197DC04801
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 65, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 201197BF03603 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 2011.