Serious B768 crash in Glasgow City on 11 June 2000 at 02:25 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier taxi
A Vauxhall Cavalier taxi crashed on the B768 in Glasgow City at 02:25 on Sunday 11 June 2000. A 54-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and a 65-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Jun 2000
- Sunday, 02:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.8288, longitude -4.27351, 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
- 200097FB01706
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 768
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 September 2009.
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on the B768 in Glasgow City, 14 September 2009
At the same spotRef 200997GD70209
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B768 in Glasgow City, 14 February 2000
10 m awayRef 200097FB02102
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B768 in Glasgow City, 25 August 2000
10 m awayRef 200097FB05408
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 17 June 2014
13 m awayRef 201497GD01506
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 19 July 2013
16 m awayRef 201397GD00807
Slight
Seat Toledo crash on the B768 in Glasgow City, 10 May 2018
19 m awayRef 201897GD70205
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 54, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 65, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200097FB01706 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.