Unclassified road crash in Glasgow City G21 on 18 February 2000 at 19:50 involving a Vauxhall Vectra taxi
A Vauxhall Vectra taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Glasgow City at 19:50 on Friday 18 February 2000. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 2000
- Friday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87495, longitude -4.23672, 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
- 200097DA03102
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 2003.
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 26 October 2003
22 m awayRef 200397EC02810
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 16 September 1990
40 m awayRef 199097DA04709
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 23 April 1981
40 m awayRef 198197DA04204
Slight
Car crash on the A803 in Glasgow City, 6 February 1981
40 m awayRef 198197DA00902
Slight
Car crash on the A803 in Glasgow City, 26 February 1981
40 m awayRef 198197DA04702
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 19 June 1980
40 m awayRef 198097DA03006
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 200097DA03102 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.