A77 crash in Glasgow City on 27 May 1983 at 23:59 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A77 in Glasgow City at 23:59 on Friday 27 May 1983. A 62-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 May 1983
- Friday, 23:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.82912, longitude -4.28292, in the G41 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
- 198397FB06405
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 77
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 24 October 1992.
Serious
Citroen AX crash on the A77 in Glasgow City, 24 October 1992
At the same spotRef 199297FB07910
Slight
Bus crash on the A77 in Glasgow City, 23 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199697FB05108
Slight
Car crash on the A77 in Glasgow City, 2 August 1985
At the same spotRef 198597FB00408
Slight
Car crash on the A77 in Glasgow City, 7 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199897FB02012
Serious
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A77 in Glasgow City, 10 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199597FB70412
Slight
Car crash on the A77 in Glasgow City, 11 March 1984
At the same spotRef 198497FB02803
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 62, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198397FB06405 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.