A730 crash in Glasgow City on 2 May 2003 at 08:50 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA hit a pedestrian on the A730 in Glasgow City at 08:50 on Friday 2 May 2003. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2003
- Friday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.84892, longitude -4.25456, in the G5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glasgow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Govan, Glasgow City, G5 8DW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Glasgow City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200397GE00405
- Council area
- Glasgow City
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 730
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2007.
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on the A730 in Glasgow City, 19 December 2007
30 m awayRef 200797GE03412
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in Glasgow City, 15 November 2010
32 m awayRef 201097GE01811
Slight
Taxi crash on the A730 in Glasgow City, 13 September 2001
41 m awayRef 200197GE02709
Serious
Volkswagen Lupo crash on the A730 in Glasgow City, 26 October 2006
54 m awayRef 200697GE04210
Slight
Taxi crash on the A730 in Glasgow City, 25 November 2001
63 m awayRef 200197GE05011
Slight
Scania crash on the A770 in Glasgow City, 17 April 2001
63 m awayRef 200197GE03104
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- 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 200397GE00405 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.