Serious A803 crash in Glasgow City on 17 March 1983 at 19:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A803 in Glasgow City at 19:40 on Thursday 17 March 1983. A 44-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Mar 1983
- Thursday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87318, longitude -4.23275, in the G21 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198397DA03103
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 803
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A803 in Glasgow City, 4 May 1982
At the same spotRef 198297DA01805
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A803 in Glasgow City, 8 December 1993
At the same spotRef 199397DA01512
Slight
Bus crash on the A803 in Glasgow City, 4 March 1989
At the same spotRef 198997DA00803
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A803 in Glasgow City, 1 August 2008
32 m awayRef 200897BC00108
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A803 in Glasgow City, 16 October 2017
34 m awayRef 201797GF00210
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A803 in Glasgow City, 17 September 2024
41 m awayRef 2024991492691
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198397DA03103 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.