A898 crash in West Dunbartonshire on 2 July 2012 at 11:15 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A898 in West Dunbartonshire at 11:15 on Monday 2 July 2012. A 30-year-old male passenger and the 22-year-old female driver were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet slip road with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 2012
- Monday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92335, longitude -4.45129, in the G60 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clydebank Waterfront, West Dunbartonshire, G60 5LX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Dunbartonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201297LA00307
- Council area
- West Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 898
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Raining, 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 November 2017.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A898 in West Dunbartonshire, 13 November 2017
13 m awayRef 201797LA01511
Serious
Rover Maestro crash on the A898 in West Dunbartonshire, 23 March 2000
20 m awayRef 200097LC02003
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A898 in West Dunbartonshire, 22 September 2016
35 m awayRef 201697LA06309
Slight
Volvo crash on the A898 in West Dunbartonshire, 2 June 2010
42 m awayRef 201097LA00406
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A898 in West Dunbartonshire, 20 August 1998
50 m awayRef 199897LA03508
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A898 in West Dunbartonshire, 2 July 1994
50 m awayRef 199497BC00807
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 201297LA00307 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 2012.