Unclassified road crash in Glasgow City G2 on 2 February 2003 at 02:15 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Metrocab Metrocab taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City at 02:15 on Sunday 2 February 2003. A 22-year-old female passenger in the Metrocab Metrocab taxi 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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Feb 2003
- Sunday, 02:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Metrocab Metrocab
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.85992, longitude -4.26239, in the G2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glasgow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Anderston/City/Yorkhill, Glasgow City, G2 6RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200397AB00702
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 November 2025.
Slight
Jeep Avenger crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 6 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025991664728
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 12 March 2016
9 m awayRef 201697AB02103
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 9 September 2000
10 m awayRef 200097AB01709
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 26 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199997AC05011
Slight
Seat Toledo crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 30 January 2000
10 m awayRef 200097AB45101
Slight
Honda Accord crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 20 September 2005
10 m awayRef 200597AC03309
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Metrocab Metrocab
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Metrocab Metrocab)
- 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 200397AB00702 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 2003.