A81 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 30 October 2011 at 11:10 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander and a Mercedes E Class were involved in a crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire at 11:10 on Sunday 30 October 2011. The 55-year-old female driver of the Mercedes E Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 2011
- Sunday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Freelander and Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91931, longitude -4.32155, in the G61 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bearsden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bearsden North, East Dunbartonshire, G61 3DL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Dunbartonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201197BF05010
- 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
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 April 2009.
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 18 April 2009
At the same spotRef 200997BF03404
Slight
Car crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 10 July 2007
14 m awayRef 200797CD01707
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 31 March 2007
14 m awayRef 200797CD05303
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 2 October 2004
14 m awayRef 200497CD00210
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 26 August 1991
22 m awayRef 199197CD02308
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 23 May 1992
22 m awayRef 199297CD03305
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes E Class)
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 201197BF05010 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.