A80 crash in Glasgow City on 17 June 1983 at 18:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A80 in Glasgow City at 18:30 on Friday 17 June 1983. A 55-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jun 1983
- Friday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87774, longitude -4.17865, in the G33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198397DA02506
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 80
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 63 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 June 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Touareg crash on the A80 in Glasgow City, 8 June 2016
63 m awayRef 201697BD03906
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A80 in Glasgow City, 28 November 2025
81 m awayRef 2025991675069
Slight
Car crash on the A80 in Glasgow City, 10 January 2001
92 m awayRef 200197EC01301
Slight
Car crash on the A80 in Glasgow City, 20 January 1989
100 m awayRef 198997DB03301
Slight
Bus crash on the A80 in Glasgow City, 16 January 1987
100 m awayRef 198797DA04501
Slight
Bus crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 22 March 1989
100 m awayRef 198997EB06303
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 198397DA02506 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 1983.