Serious unclassified road crash in Glasgow City G41 on 5 July 1997 at 17:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Glasgow City at 17:50 on Saturday 5 July 1997. A 35-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Jul 1997
- Saturday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.8363, longitude -4.28334, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199797FB01907
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 769
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, 46 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 July 2015.
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Serious
Car crash on the A736 in Glasgow City, 2 May 1988
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Kawasaki ZX750 crash on the B763 in Glasgow City, 22 May 1991
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Slight
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Serious
Car crash on the A77 in Glasgow City, 25 June 1985
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
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 199797FB01907 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 1997.