A814 crash in Glasgow City on 29 October 2000 at 01:55 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Vauxhall Omega taxi were involved in a crash on the A814 in Glasgow City at 01:55 on Sunday 29 October 2000. The 35-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Omega taxi and an 18-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Omega taxi were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Oct 2000
- Sunday, 01:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Vauxhall Omega
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86029, longitude -4.28143, in the G3 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
- 200097AC06310
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 814
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 814
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 2002.
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 6 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200297AC70208
Serious
Saab 9-3 crash on the A814 in Glasgow City, 6 November 2010
At the same spotRef 201097AC00311
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 23 April 2006
10 m awayRef 200697AC02004
Slight
Citroen AX crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 4 March 1999
10 m awayRef 199997AC01103
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on the A814 in Glasgow City, 23 May 2003
10 m awayRef 200397AC03505
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A814 in Glasgow City, 16 November 1999
14 m awayRef 199997AC03011
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Omega
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Omega)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Omega)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200097AC06310 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 2000.