B8023 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 24 June 2015 at 23:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the B8023 in East Dunbartonshire at 23:45 on Wednesday 24 June 2015. The 28-year-old male driver and a 28-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jun 2015
- Wednesday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94836, longitude -4.13416, in the G66 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Dunbartonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201597BF03206
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8023
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 803
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 38%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 62%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 2006.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A803 in East Dunbartonshire, 3 September 2006
6 m awayRef 200697CD01209
Slight
Car crash on the A803 in East Dunbartonshire, 13 January 2005
33 m awayRef 200597CD01801
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A803 in East Dunbartonshire, 1 September 2006
38 m awayRef 200697CD00109
Serious
Car crash on the A891 in East Dunbartonshire, 26 April 1987
39 m awayRef 198797DC06804
Serious
Car crash on the A803 in East Dunbartonshire, 25 January 1986
39 m awayRef 198697DC08101
Slight
Car crash on the A803 in East Dunbartonshire, 7 February 1990
39 m awayRef 199097DC02202
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201597BF03206 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 2015.