B768 crash in Glasgow City on 25 July 1983 at 15:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the B768 in Glasgow City at 15:05 on Monday 25 July 1983. The 67-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jul 1983
- Monday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.82782, longitude -4.2557, 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
- 198397FA04507
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 768
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 82 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 2019.
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the B768 in Glasgow City, 5 December 2019
82 m awayRef 2019970950125
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 5 August 2003
90 m awayRef 200397CB00508
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 16 October 2009
92 m awayRef 200997GD01210
Slight
Car crash on the B768 in Glasgow City, 4 April 1983
100 m awayRef 198397FA00604
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 4 June 1986
100 m awayRef 198697FA00606
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 9 December 1987
100 m awayRef 198797FB03512
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
- 67 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 198397FA04507 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.