Serious A802 crash in Glasgow City on 21 May 1987 at 21:25 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on the A802 in Glasgow City at 21:25 on Thursday 21 May 1987. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 May 1987
- Thursday, 21:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.85134, longitude -4.19795, in the G31 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
- 198797EB04405
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 802
- Road type
- Dual 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 1994.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 10 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199497EB02212
Serious
Bus crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 9 May 1984
At the same spotRef 198497EB02105
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A802 in Glasgow City, 21 September 1992
At the same spotRef 199297EB05709
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 21 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199797EB03211
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 2 March 1993
At the same spotRef 199397EB02403
Slight
Bus crash on the A89 in Glasgow City, 18 September 1981
At the same spotRef 198197EB03909
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- 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 198797EB04405 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 1987.