Serious A81 crash in Glasgow City on 14 January 1999 at 19:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A81 in Glasgow City at 19:30 on Thursday 14 January 1999. A 73-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Jan 1999
- Thursday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89691, longitude -4.29861, in the G20 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
- 199997CA02201
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 81
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 2009.
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 27 January 2009
14 m awayRef 200997BE03401
Serious
Kia Pride crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 1 January 1998
42 m awayRef 199897CA00201
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 26 April 1985
42 m awayRef 198597CA04604
Serious
Car crash on the A81 in Glasgow City, 4 February 1983
42 m awayRef 198397CA01002
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 21 May 2025
49 m awayRef 2025991599277
Slight
Scania crash on the A81 in Glasgow City, 23 June 2001
57 m awayRef 200197CA03306
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 73, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199997CA02201 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 1999.