A81 crash in Glasgow City on 11 November 2000 at 17:00 involving a London Taxis Int. TX1
A London Taxis Int. TX1 hit a pedestrian on the A81 in Glasgow City at 17:00 on Saturday 11 November 2000. A 64-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Nov 2000
- Saturday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- London Taxis Int. TX1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87972, longitude -4.27089, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200097CB01411
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 October 2004.
Serious
Car crash on the A81 in Glasgow City, 8 October 2004
14 m awayRef 200497CB01010
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 18 October 2022
16 m awayRef 2022991242071
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A81 in Glasgow City, 17 November 2012
22 m awayRef 201297BE01711
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A81 in Glasgow City, 14 August 2003
28 m awayRef 200397CB01708
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A81 in Glasgow City, 30 September 2006
32 m awayRef 200697CA04309
Slight
Metrocab Metrocab crash on the A81 in Glasgow City, 2 January 1993
40 m awayRef 199397CB00201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: London Taxis Int. TX1
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,664 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 64, hit by vehicle 1 (London Taxis Int. TX1)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200097CB01411 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.