A81 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 26 January 2019 at 17:30 involving a Toyota Aygo
A Toyota Aygo crashed on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire at 17:30 on Saturday 26 January 2019. The 79-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 2019
- Saturday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Aygo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93189, longitude -4.31631, in the G62 postcode district and within the built-up area of Milngavie.
Map of where the crash happened in East Dunbartonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201997GJ00901
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 19 December 1985
10 m awayRef 198597CD03212
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 12 October 2021
17 m awayRef 2021991097642
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 14 March 2016
18 m awayRef 201697BF02103
Slight
Car crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 17 February 2023
33 m awayRef 2023991278863
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 9 October 2009
36 m awayRef 200997BF01310
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 17 October 2021
60 m awayRef 2021991099494
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 79, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Aygo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
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 201997GJ00901 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 2019.