A74 crash in Glasgow City on 30 October 2001 at 15:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A74 in Glasgow City at 15:15 on Tuesday 30 October 2001. The 51-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 2001
- Tuesday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.83643, longitude -4.15945, in the G32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glasgow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shettleston, Glasgow City, G32 8ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200197EB05710
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 74
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2001.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A74 in Glasgow City, 19 October 2001
At the same spotRef 200197EB04510
Slight
Citroen Dispatch crash on the A74 in Glasgow City, 9 December 2025
18 m awayRef 2025991680425
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A74 in Glasgow City, 9 September 2004
28 m awayRef 200497EB01309
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A74 in Glasgow City, 17 June 2008
50 m awayRef 200897BD01406
Slight
Car crash on the A74 in Glasgow City, 24 September 2006
51 m awayRef 200697EB03909
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A74 in Glasgow City, 8 September 2004
54 m awayRef 200497EB01209
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200197EB05710 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 2001.