A803 crash in Glasgow City on 4 March 1989 at 12:20 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A803 in Glasgow City at 12:20 on Saturday 4 March 1989. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Mar 1989
- Saturday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198997DA00803
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 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
Serious
Car crash on the A803 in Glasgow City, 17 March 1983
At the same spotRef 198397DA03103
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: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 198997DA00803 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 1989.