A89 crash in Glasgow City on 1 October 1983 at 00:55 involving a taxi
A taxi crashed on the A89 in Glasgow City at 00:55 on Saturday 1 October 1983. The 59-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 1983
- Saturday, 00:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.85255, longitude -4.18044, in the G32 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
- 198397EB00410
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 89
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 1981.
Slight
Bus crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 17 April 1981
At the same spotRef 198197EB04804
Slight
Car crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 9 June 1987
At the same spotRef 198797EB03106
Slight
Bus crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 29 April 1986
At the same spotRef 198697EB07904
Slight
Car crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 8 July 1984
At the same spotRef 198497EB01607
Serious
Bus crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 22 July 1982
At the same spotRef 198297EB04307
Serious
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 10 January 1997
At the same spotRef 199797EB01101
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
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 198397EB00410 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.