Unclassified road crash in Glasgow City G42 on 19 August 1980 at 12:25 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City at 12:25 on Tuesday 19 August 1980. The 33-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 1980
- Tuesday, 12:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.83955, longitude -4.25318, in the G42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glasgow.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198097AC03608
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 1991.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B765 in Glasgow City, 2 February 1991
At the same spotRef 199197FA00802
Serious
Car crash on the A730 in Glasgow City, 20 November 1981
At the same spotRef 198197FA04711
Fatal
Car crash on the A730 in Glasgow City, 8 January 1982
At the same spotRef 198297FA00601
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 7 May 2002
32 m awayRef 200297GE01405
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the A728 in Glasgow City, 3 September 2010
32 m awayRef 201097GE00409
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 30 October 2025
34 m awayRef 2025991661367
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 198097AC03608 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Glasgow City road accident statistics for 1980.