Unclassified road crash in East Dunbartonshire G66 on 15 November 2014 at 20:30 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series hit two pedestrians on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire at 20:30 on Saturday 15 November 2014. A 25-year-old male pedestrian and a 25-year-old male pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Nov 2014
- Saturday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97003, longitude -4.19208, 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
- 201497BF03211
- 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
- T or staggered 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 48%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 52%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 1990.
Slight
Vauxhall Senator crash on the B822 in East Dunbartonshire, 5 October 1990
16 m awayRef 199097DC02010
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A891 in East Dunbartonshire, 8 August 1991
16 m awayRef 199197DC01308
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in East Dunbartonshire, 20 January 1984
16 m awayRef 198497DC05001
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A891 in East Dunbartonshire, 11 March 2003
79 m awayRef 200397CD01303
Slight
Car crash on the A819 in East Dunbartonshire, 18 November 1989
89 m awayRef 198997DC05811
Slight
Lorry crash on the A871 in East Dunbartonshire, 25 September 1989
89 m awayRef 198997DC05909
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 201497BF03211 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 2014.